Background
Ratner, Rochelle was born on December 2, 1948 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Herman and Esther Ratner.
(Poetry. "In BEGGARS AT THE WALL, Rochelle Ratner guides u...)
Poetry. "In BEGGARS AT THE WALL, Rochelle Ratner guides us through an Israel that is not quite the Middle Eastern country we've learned about from CNN or travel books. This is her Israel: a fabled and disquieting place she wants to love like a homeland but cannot entirely embrace. In these plain-spoken poems, so naked in their concerns and passions, Ratner has given us the work of a secular Jew who yearns to be centered in Zion but who knows that Israel can never be her home. Her poems are washed in the light of Safed, Masada, and Jerusalem--a light that reveals hard truths about the lone Jewish nation on the planet...and about ourselves"--Charles Fishman.
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(The poems are divided into four sections: The Shohet, Ill...)
The poems are divided into four sections: The Shohet, Illuminations, Someday Songs and The Pendulum. The illustrator Bernard Solomon is a printmaker and the publisher of Boxwood Press. The illustrations in this book are taken from his publication An Artist's Haggadah.
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Ratner, Rochelle was born on December 2, 1948 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Herman and Esther Ratner.
Student, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1971.
Poetry columnist Soho Weekly News, New York City, 1975-1982. Executive editor American Book Review, Normal, Illinois, 1978—2006. Poetry reviewer Library.
Journal, New York City, from 1976. Poetry consultant Israel Horizons, New York City, 1988-1997, New York City, 1988—1997. Editor New Jersey Online Reading Room, Jersey City, 1995—1996.
Associate editor American Book Review, from 2007.
(The poems are divided into four sections: The Shohet, Ill...)
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(Poetry. "In BEGGARS AT THE WALL, Rochelle Ratner guides u...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Authors Guild, National Writers Union, National Book Critics Circle (vice president for publications 1999-2001, board directors 1995-2001).
Married Kenneth Thorp, March 30, 1990.