Books of Poetry by Martha Ronk
Silences. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing. 2019.
Ocular Proof. Oakland: Omindawn Publishing, 2016.
Transfer of Qualities. Richmond: Omnidawn Publishing, 2013.
Partially Kept. Callicoon: Nightboat Books, 2012.
Vertigo. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2007.
In a landscape of having to repeat. Richmond: Omnidawn Publishing, 2004.
why/why not. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Eyetrouble. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
State of Mind. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995.
Desert Geometries. Collaboration with visual artist Don Suggs. Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1992.
Desire in L. A. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Creative Prose:
Glass Grapes & Other Stories. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2008.
Displeasures of the Table: memoir as caricature. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001.
Edited Volumes:
Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States, edited with Paul Vangelisti. Los Angeles: Green
Integer, 2002.
Inclusion in Anthologies:
forthcoming: American Women Poets in the 21st Century, Wesleyan University Press.
forthcoming: Little Anthology, ed. Douglas Messerli, Green Integer Books.
American Hybrid, ed. Cole Swensen & David St. John, Norton, 2009.
Lyric Postmodernism, ed. Reginald Shepherd, Counterpath Press, 2008.
Not for Mothers Only, ed. Catherine Wagner & Rebecca Wolff, Fence Books, 2007.
Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California, ed. Douglas Messerli Green Integer Books,
2005.
Recent Terrains Collaboration with photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns
Hopkins Press, 2000.
LA Exile, A Guide to Los Angeles Writing 1932-1998, ed. Paul Vangelisti & Evan Calbi,
Marsillio Press, 1999.
Chapbooks:
Prepositional. Los Angeles, Mindmade Books, 2004.
Quotidian. San Francisco: a+bend press, 2000.
Emblems. Saratoga: Instress, 1998.
Allegories. Collaboration with visual artist Tom Wudl. Italian translations by Paul Vangelisti.
Castelvetro Piacentino: Michele Lombardelli & NuovaLitoEffe editori, 1998.
Selected Interviews:
Snyder, Jon. “Interview on line.” Santa Barbara Museum of Art. April 9, 2017.
Fitch, Andy. “An Interview with Martha Ronk.” Rain Taxi Online Edition. Summer 2016.
http://www.raintaxi.com/an-interview-with-martha-ronk/
Morrison, Rusty. “Rusty Morrison with Martha Ronk.” The Conversant. 21 December 2013.
http://theconversant.org/?p=5865
Selected Reviews of and Criticism on Ronk’s Work
Hecht, Jennifer Michael, “Review of Ocular Proof.” American Poets. Fall/Winter 2016.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/book/ocular-proof
Kelsey, Karla. “Review of Transfer of Qualities.” The Constant Critic. 1 February 2014.
http://www.constantcritic.com/karla_kelsey/transfer-of-qualities/
Landry, Benjamin. “Transfer of Qualities by Martha Ronk.” The Rumpus, 15 March, 2014.
Reed, Brian. “Grammar Trouble, analysis of hybridity and “Moon over LA” from
LyricPostmodernisms, ed. Reginald Shepherd.” boundary 2, 36:3 (2009): 133-158.
Silliman, Ron. “Friday, August 01, 2008.” Silliman’s Blog. 1 August 2008.
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/there-is-exactness-both-of-vision-and.html
Robinson, Elizabeth. “Hybrid Literatures including Vertigo,” Rain Taxi. 12.4 (Winter 2007/8).
Teare, Brian. “‘In Quest of the Ordinary’: On Martha Ronk’s In a landscape of having to repeat.
Poetry Flash, Nos. 296 & 297 (Winter/Spring 2006): 18-19.
Doxsee, Julie, “Review of In a Landscape of Having to Repeat.” Double Room. Issue #5 (Winter/Spring 2005).
Muratori, Fred, “Microreview of “In a landscape of having to repeat,” Boston Review. 30.2
(April/May, 2005).
Tursi, Mark. “Review of In a landscape of having to repeat.” American Book Review. 26.2
(January/February, 2005).
Allara, Amy. “Review of In a landscape of having to repeat.” First Intensity. 20, 2005.
Roig, Denis,“ Review of Displeasures of the Table.” Gastronomica .(Winter, 2006).
Gonzales, Liz. “What So Cal Poets Are Reading.” Review of Displeasures of the Table.”
www.speechlessthemagazine.org/magazine/in_review_1203.htm
Waldie, D.J, “Review of Recent Terrains, Terraforming the American West, Photographs by
Laurie Brown, Poetry by Martha Ronk.” Los Angeles Times (December 24, 2000).
Mazur, Gary. “eyetrouble: poems by Martha Ronk.” Harvard Review 15 (September 1, 1998).
Revell, Donald “Review of Why/ Why Not.” Interim Magazine, 22. 1&2.
Hass, Robert, “Poet’s Choice: Review of State of Mind.” Book World. The Washington Post.
2007.
Keckler, W.B. “Mind’s Shifting Geography, review of State of Mind.” American Book Review. 17.4 (April/May, 1996).
Ronk Reviews
For Constant Critic:
Peter Gizzi, Archeophics
C.D. Wright, The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Garolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big
Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All.
Matvei Yankelevich Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
Lazy Suzie by Suzanne Doppelt (trans. Cole Swensen)
Model City by Donna Stonecipher
Loom by Sarah Gridley & The Albertine Workout by Anne Carso
For Los Angeles Review of Books: Elena Ferrante, Those who leave and those who stay;
Laird Hunt, Neverhome
For The Chicago Review, Barbara Guest, Fair Realism, “A Foreign Substance”