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Poetry. "These eloquent prose poems journey over a vast landscape of human experience, myth, folk tale, and family history. Larger than life, spinning through time and space with imaginative pyrotechnics and acute perception, the poems are entertaining, sobering, and above all, wise" -Shirley Kaufman.
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Morton Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of The Year and received the Gail Rich Award in 2007 for his cultural contributions to Santa Cruz County. He published ten volumes of poetry and one novel, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Pages From A Scrapbook of Immigrants, and WHEN PEOPLE COULD FLY. Morton had more than 450 poems in literary journals, and his work has been selected to appear in over 85 anthologies in the United States, Europe and Australia. In 2002 he published his eighth and ninth books of poetry: MOMENTS WITHOUT NAMES: NEW & SELECTED PROSE POEMS (White Pine Press) and Shouting Down The Silence: Verse Poems 1988-2001 (Creative Arts Books). In 2007, he published a new volume of prose poems, Pursuing The Dream Bone. Recently, White Pine Press published his translations of Vasko Popa poems, THE STAR WIZARD'S LEGACY: SIX POETIC SEQUENCES. Morton Marcus passed away in the fall of 2009.
