Glass Grapes (17 page)

Authors: Martha Ronk

About The Author

Martha Ronk is the author of a number of books of poetry, most recently,
In a landscape of having to repeat
(Omnidawn), winner of the PEN USA best poetry book 2005, and
Vertigo
(Coffee House Press), a 2007 National Poetry Series selection. She is the recipient of a 2007 NEA grant and has had residencies at both the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi. As a Professor of Renaissance literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles, she has written academic articles on Shakespeare, specifically on ekphrasis, an extended verbal description of a visual object.

BOA Editions, Ltd. American Reader Series

No. 1	Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth Prose by Blaise Cendrars Translated by Bertrand Mathieu
No. 2	Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry By William Heyen
No. 3	After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches By W. D. Snodgrass
No. 4	Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry By Stephen Dunn
No. 5	To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry By W. D. Snodgrass
No. 6	You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke By Lou Andreas-SalomÃ©
No. 7	Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll
No. 8	I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These By Anthony Tognazzini
No. 9	Unlucky Lucky Days By Daniel Grandbois
No. 10	Glass Grapes and Other Stories Martha Ronk

Colophon

Glass Grapes and Other Stories,
by Martha Ronk, is set in ITC Veljovic, a digital font designed by Jovica Veljovic (1954â ), which displays a crisp precision, as if the letters were cut in stone rather than drawn with pen and ink.

The publication of this book is made possible, in part, by the special support of the following individuals:

Anonymous (2)

Angela Bonazinga & Catherine Lewis

Alan & Nancy Cameros
Gwen & Gary Conners