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Ratcliffe has been working in poetry for thirty years and we have a
whole shelf of his distinguished books, including most recently Idea's
Mirror (Poetes & Poets Press, 1999), Mallarmé: poem in
prose (Santa Barbara Review, 1998), Sculpture (Littoral Books,
1996), Present Tense (The Figures, 1995). SOUND/system has
been forthcoming from Sun & Moon for--oh, for most of the 20th century.
Another manuscript, Painting, was chosen as a finalist in this year's
National Poetry Series. Ratcliffe edits Avenue B Books and teaches at Mills
College in Oakland. His new book, Listening to Reading (SUNY Press,
2000) collects many of the sensitive essays on post-modern poetry which
have been fugitive for many years. Ratcliffe's great strengths are a willingness
to follow perception no matter where it goes, a steely stick-to-it-iveness
that rivals Natty Bumppo's, and a deep genius understanding of music and
its character that robes his philosophic and psychic quests in starry mantles
of delight. March 23, 2001 . |
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