Balancing Acts - Softcover

Ratner, Rochelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978555503 ISBN 13: 9780978555504

Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, 2006

Synopsis

Poetry. The prose poems in BALANCING ACTS straddle the delicate borders between fiction and poetry, memoir and fantasy, reality and illusion. The arrangement of poems chronicles the growth of one woman or a mythic Everywoman, from early childhood through adulthood and all that entails: school, love, marriage, and finally the mother's death and impending death of the father. "In writing as in life, this poet seems to have no use for undue exuberance but is plainly too strong to let herself get bogged down in the maudlin...The result is honest and unaffected writing refreshingly free of the self-conscious angst that mars the writing of some of her colleagues"--Library Journal.

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Rochelle Ratner explores the forgotten corners of one's life, the bits of nourishment one finds but is not given, or is given only to hunger for more... The effect of this narrative in prose poems is unsettling, as if the cobwebs in the corners of our own lives had been pulled aside. – Jessica Treat

About the Author

Rochelle Ratner lives in New York City. Her books include two novels: Bobby's Girl (Coffee House Press, 1986) and The Lion's Share (Coffee House Press, 1991) and sixteen poetry books, including House and Home (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003) and Beggars at the Wall (Ikon, October 2005). An anthology she edited, Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness, was published in January 2000 by The Feminist Press. Links to her writing on the Internet can be found on her homepage: www.rochelleratner.com. (February 2006, December 2006). See also "Books" link in Lunarosity Menu. (In Memoriam, 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0978555503
• ISBN 13: 9780978555504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 101