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Balancing Acts Format: Paperback, 104pp. A finalist for the 2007 Binghamton University Milt Kessler Book Award "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 corner of our own lives had been pulled aside." —Jessica Treat "Ratner’s contribution and, in fact, innovation in contemporary prose poetry is to bring a strong narrative perspective to the collection of prose poems. That is to say,while many prose poems rely on narrative within the poem itself, Ratner’s book has a narrative arc that is created through the interlinking of her prose poems… In many ways, Balancing Acts could be read not as a book of prose poems, but as a novel of creative non-fiction or as fiction. Each of those options would change the reading, I would argue, and each would enhance and detract alternatively from the text. Thus, one of the achievements of this book is the way in which it challenges the conventional categories of text that we use today." —Julie R. Enszer, Galatea Ressurects #5 See more information, and links to reviews, from the Marsh Hawk Press website Order directly from SPD |
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