Category: Poetry Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
ISBN-10: 0810815117
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 185
Copyright: 1982
Selected Poems through 1982
Poems from the following books:
Puppet X
Clown Birth
Osiris
Helen
Chaucer Marginalia
yCantos
Excerpt
"I'm not a practising angel,
ladies and gentlemen."
-- from: Puppet X
Professional Reviews
Contact II
from a review in Contact II by Robin Kay Willoughby:
"Ratch is a poet the way David Bowie is a musician: it's obvious that Ratch's text resembles Bowie's lyrics (e.g.: "...an airplane, a very high,/ serious airplane," ..."rainy mouse/ in the year 3000/ after the logical wars"), but less obvious how they both continuously reveal the terror in their business. Far from "parsimonious," Ratch is most lavish with the richness of his lean poems - the few words per piece that he hands us are so intellectually and spiritually nourishing! - satisfying and shocking at once, like brown rice with a salt-plum on the side, as in this, from "Osiris":
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.