Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome Jerry Ratch to discuss and sign his new memoir about polio, A Body Divided, on Sunday, January 17, at 3pm.

Jerry Ratch has published 12 books of poetry, and the novel Wild Reality. His poems have been published in Antioch Review, Avec, Beatitude, Carolina Quarterly, COE Review, Louisville Review, Maryland Literary Review, and Negative Capability among others.