Poetry. "Mort Marcus, one of America's hidden literary treasures, has become a superb master of the prose poem..Often it's the situation, the little storyline that captivates.the unimaginably tantalizing mini-stories, thumbnail histories, legends, pictures, myths, sketches, murals, and musicals.. At other times, it is language, the physically affecting beauty of it, that sends a shiver up the spine.. I couldn't get enough of this delectable stuff, and there is nothing else like it anywhere" -Al Young.

Author City: SANTA CRUZ, CA USA

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 eleven 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 and his own collection, THE DARK FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY: LAST POEMS. Morton Marcus passed away in the fall of 2009.