ISBN: 0-88739-453-1
120 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 11/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $15.00
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Shouting Down the Silence
A Donald S. Ellis Book
Verse Poems: 1988-2001
Morton Marcus
Morton Marcus is the author of eight volumes of poetry and one novel, among them The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants, and When People Could Fly.
He has published over 400 poems in literary journals and has had work selected to appear in more than 76 anthologies in the United States, Europe and Australia. His ninth book, Moments Without Names: New & Selected Prose Poems, was published in Spring 2002 as part of the Marie Alexander Series of White Pine Press.
The Stars
The stars are grains of salt
thrown over God's shoulder.
They fly from us and we fly after.
But the heart, that dark star
the heart, that heavy planet,
is all we know of heaven.
Review: "...some of the best prose poems published today."
-Peter Johnson, critic
"...the prose poem has found a marvelous godfather."
-The Brittanica Yearbook
"...unerring in its vital retelling of our myths."
-Publishers Weekly
"Marcus is the kind of priest-poet who, like Peguy or Jacob, gets to the Light by tearing up the universe in ecstatic dance."
-Andrei Codrescu, novelist
Bio: In 1999, MORTON MARCUS was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year, joining Adrienne Rich and William Everson (Brother Antoninus) as the only poets to win the award.
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