About Jerry Ratch

Jerry Ratch has published 13 books of poetry, the novel, Wild Dreams of Reality, and the memoir, A Body Divided, the story of a one-armed boy growing up in a two-fisted world. His latest book of poems is Six-Second Rule. His work can be purchased at www.jerryratch.com.

Some of the excerpts in How the 60s Ended have been previously posted, in a different form, on fictionaut.com.

Bay Area poetry scene, 1970s: Jerry Ratch, far right, and other writers at a party	Jerry Ratch, age 25

Click to hear Jerry Ratch reading poetry.