Background
Daughter of John (in sales) and Mary Ronk, Mrs. Ronk was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on February 19, 1940.
(Desire in L.A. confronts limitless longing in a city that...)
Desire in L.A. confronts limitless longing in a city that is itself without limits. In these poems, the object of desire is decidedly missing, whether that object be love or beauty or the past.
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1990
(The poems in State of mind are in transit from one state ...)
The poems in State of mind are in transit from one state of mind to another as geographies (especially Californian) slide into states of mind, statements of "fact" into memory or metaphor. Just as one necessarily defines oneself against the surrounding world of objects, so in Ronk's poetry landscape do words find meaning as they work against and in conjunction with each other.
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1995
(In Partially Kept, Ronk’s elegiac and lyrical poetry resp...)
In Partially Kept, Ronk’s elegiac and lyrical poetry responds to a world marked by transience and loss. Quotations by 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Browne highlight historical shifts in language, creating intertextual poems that consider the botanical world, the art of photography, and philosophy. Ronk’s attention to rhetoric and representation speak to the shifting temporality between one thing and another, between one mind and another.
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(With each poetry collection, Martha Ronk has further refi...)
With each poetry collection, Martha Ronk has further refined her unique use of the sentence, its textures and tangents, to extend the ways that a meditative lyric might address the most intimate and subtle experiences of living.
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(These poems remind us that things are not always what the...)
These poems remind us that things are not always what they appear to be. Concerned with seeing things clearly, they examine what seem to be the obvious - signposts, news reports, storms, labels - as well as the not so obvious - memories, history, love.
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(Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries creat...)
Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny?
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Daughter of John (in sales) and Mary Ronk, Mrs. Ronk was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on February 19, 1940.
Martha Ronk graduated from Wellesley College, from which she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1962. In 1968 Mrs. Ronk finished her studies at Yale University with Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Mrs. Ronk was a lecturer at North Carolina College at Durham (now North Carolina Central University). From 1967 to 1971 she served as an assistant professor at Tufts University, Medford, MA. Between 1972 and 1980 Martha Ronk held the post of a coordinator of curriculum at Immaculate Heart College.
In 1980 she resumed her office as a professor of English and creative writing at Occidental College, Los Angeles. From 1978 till 1979 Mrs. Ronk served as a parttime teacher at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Later she acted as an editor for Littoral Books. She gave readings from her works. In 1991 Mrs. Ronk became a resident of MacDowell Colony.
Martha Ronk was a co-author of the screenplays Merlene of the Movies, The Way. She also was a contributor of poems, articles, and reviews to periodicals, including Ploughshares, Hanging Loose, Antioch Review, Talisman, Massachusetts Review, and Poetry LA.
(With each poetry collection, Martha Ronk has further refi...)
(The poems in State of mind are in transit from one state ...)
1995(Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length c...)
(Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries creat...)
(In Partially Kept, Ronk’s elegiac and lyrical poetry resp...)
(These poems remind us that things are not always what the...)
(Desire in L.A. confronts limitless longing in a city that...)
1990