Jerry Ratch has published 14 books of poetry, and the novel: WILD DREAMS OF REALITY. His work can be purchased through the author's website at www.jerryratch.com. Email: jerryratch@yahoo.com. Other novels and stories now available for download only at Amazon Kindle Books: THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO POETRY WARS, as well as ADULTERATED MEMOIRS, and THE NUDIST CAMP AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. These are newer, "must read" books. About POETRY WARS, one reviewer stated: "This book makes me homesick for a brand of freedom that is long gone.This is a completely wonderful book. You'll love all these crazy characters. Tell all your friends they must read this novel. At a bare minimum it deserves the status of being a major cult hit."Poems published in: Antioch Review, AppleValleyReview, Avec, Beatitude, Carolina Quarterly, COE Review, Contact II, Ironwood, Louisville Review, Maryland Literary Review, Milvia Street Journal, Negative Capability, www.Public-Republic.net , Seems, Slant, Tonopah Review, among others. About the novel WILD DREAMS OF REALITY, Richard Ford wrote: "The almost, but not quite innocent directness of Ratch's savvy little novel is irresistible to me. I read it in a sitting. I'm glad real writers still want to write books this way."Now available: A memoir entitled A BODY DIVIDED, from Atelier Books. The story of a one-armed boy becoming a man in a two-fisted world. "A gritty and valiant story ... I would be glad to recommend it." -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti New novel available in manuscript (60,000 words): THE SAN FRANCISCO POETRY WARS. About it Thomas Calder wrote: "Great stuff. I feel like if Kerouac and Vonnegut had had a baby you might be it, with Heller as your god-father maybe. Really funny."Another new manuscript now in development: "ADULTERATED MEMOIRS," an epistolary novel, by Alana Illinois and Jerry Ratch. Erotic, Philosophical, Mythic. (approx. 40,000 words) Most of my books are now available as very affordable Kindle Books.