Poetry. PURSUING THE DREAM BONE is a new collection of prose poetry from Morton Marcus. Reflecting on everything from the mundane to the sacred, Marcus explores issues of family, identity, loss, and the simple joys of everyday life. His style--by turns witty, poignant, and compassionate--remains fresh and accessible. More personal than his other prose poem books, PURSUING THE DREAM BONE continues Marcus's parable-like examination of the human condition in pieces that are alternately antic, whimsical, somber and elegiac. As Al Young has said about Morton Marcus's previous prose poems, "I couldn't get enough of this delectable stuff, and there is nothing like it anywhere."

Author Hometown: SANTA CRUZ, CA USA



About the author: 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.