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Jacqueline Marcus
Publications:
Summer Rains
(Iris Press) 2015
Close to the Shore
Michigan State University Press
By Jacqueline
Marcus
Read Selected Poems
from Close to the Shore
Jacqueline Marcus'
poems have appeared in
The Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review,
The Ohio Review, The Literary Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Journal, Poetry
International, Hayden's Ferry Review, College English, The Sycamore Review, The Seattle
Review, 5AM, Iris, Appalachia, The Mid-American Review, Passages North, Ascent, Southern
Humanities Review, The Cider Press Review, Poet Lore, Faultline,
The Yalobusha Review, The Bellowing Ark, Plainsongs, New Delta Review, The American Poetry Journal, Hotel Amerika, North
American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Fine Line, Tampa
Review, Brooklyn Review, New Madrid,...
...
Online Publications
EarthSpeakMagazine.com, ThreeCandles, PoetryMagazine, Samsara Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, NewtopiaMagazine,
CommonDreams.org
Satires and Political Commentaries
Exquisite
Corpse,Washington Post, Slate, Common Dreams,Freedom Forum First Amendment
Calendar (firstamendmentcenter.org),
Buzzflash at Truthout.org
Anthologies:
DIGERATI: 20 Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World 2006;
The 1997 ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE & YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY, RED HEN ANTHOLOGY and
a Chapbook from White Heron Press 1998. She was a semifinalist in the
Nation/Discovery 1997 Contest.
History
During her childhood years
Jacqueline Marcus attended Sidwell Friends and studied painting
at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. She loved to
draw winter trees, which have become a central motif in her
poems. She received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy
at the University of California Santa Barbara and her master's
in Humanities at Southern Oregon University. She taught philosophy at Cuesta College
(retired), and is the
editor of the online poetry journal, ForPoetry.com.
Trained
as a philosopher, Jacqueline Marcus follows the ancient themes of Plato's Allegory of
the Cave—the longing to know what lasts in a world of shadows—as her poetry
traces a metaphorical journey from the river to the sea, exploring the natural world and
reconciling its beauty with its suffering.
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Praise for Close to the Shore
"Jacqueline
Marcus's Close to the Shore presents us with a poet whose prodigious talents,
uncanny emotional range, and (dare one say it?) profound spiritual sympathies, have opened
up a space in the human heart where every thoughtful reader will feel welcome. This
is a poet of abundance and wonder, a poet who reminds us that poetry is, in some very
elemental way, "the insistence of Form, / each note, an integration, / each note, a
prayer-wheel turning."
—Sherod Santos, Department of English, University of Missouri
"An enormously
powerful and accomplished poet. Her poems all have extraordinary authority and
presence. There is a grace to these poems that always pleases, and an intelligence
to their meditations that is always compelling."
—David St. John, Department of English, UCLA
"Jacqueline Marcus's poems have
all the suppleness and hesitation of thought itself. They wander through so many
dimensions - philosophical, personal, and political - on the way to a condition which,
they seem to say, may or may not exist, but which is nevertheless luminous, intelligent,
and serene."
—John Koethe, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
Richly metaphorical and quietly bursting
with deliciously demure eloquence, Close to the Shore meanders in and out of the
depths of beauty and pain, powered by an immensely thoughtful set of poems which will
victor over many a reader's heart.
Marcus, a philosophy professor — and
editor for ForPoetry.com — is an
extraordinarily gifted and successful poet who here never ever missteps — or fails to
command a well-deserved spot on center stage.
Delicious.
—The Boox Review:
Good Reviews for Good Books
http://www.thebooxreview.com/roundup.htm
Political Commentaries by
Jacqueline Marcus:
CommonDreams.org:
A Powerful, Massive Protest:
Diminish the Corporate Media’s
Power
by Turning off Your TV for Good!
Bush's
Soldier-Kids: Sacrificing Children to Iraq's Purgatorial Combat
Zone
The
Medieval Detainee Bill: An Uncivilized People
A Nation of Morons:
Illiteracy and the high college dropout rate
If You're For Torture, You're a Torturer
Targeted by Conservatives for Teaching Philosophy
Voting: Is it all for nada?
If You Vote for War, You Go to War
TV News Viewership Declines,
Internet Use Rises
The Politics
of Restraint
New Times San Luis Obispo
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