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• Mort Marcus, 1935 - 2009

  November 5, 2009

  • Because poet Mort Marcus was a friend and ally, someone I've known since I moved to Santa Cruz in 1985, this Santa Cruz Sentinel article by Wallace Baine has special meaning. Most of what I post is original, but now and then something special comes along that I'd like to share... and it touches on the theme of Writers Friendship, the subject of another blog I'm involved with...  Wallace Baine: ...
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• Last Phone Call - Mort Marcus

  October 30, 2009

  • Poet Mort Marcus phoned a few days ago fully conscious, fully present... and it was one of those brief, but complete... well, a goodbye conversation, exemplary... actually, Mort did most of the speaking... for my part, all I could think to say was, "O Mort, O Mort! And then those last few words, Mort saying, "I'll be in touch..."
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• Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art," the art of losing isn't hard to master... Villanelle

  October 27, 2009

  • This is a poem, "One Art," that I seem to have known before, _long_ before I first read it, and foolishly forgot, and then it comes back into my life and it's there again as if it had never not been there. One Art     by Elizabeth BishopThe art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day. ...
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