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Index to

Striking Through the Masks

A Literary Memoir by

Morton Marcus

(Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008)

Compiled by

Stanley D. Stevens

Santa Cruz, California 2008

Index to Striking Through the Masks: A Literary Memoir by Morton Marcus (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Capitola Books, 2008)

© 2008 Stanley D. Stevens

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A Aborigines: mentioned 496-509 -- Mort & Joe Stroud heard their silence

at Navajo meeting 179 Acropolis, Athens: mention 329 Actors’ Workshop of San Francisco -- George Hitchcock acted w/them 206 -- observed by Donald Justice 189, 212 Aegina, Island of, Greece: mention 355 Agamemnon palace, ruins of: tourist

spot at Mycenae 333 Agora, Athens: mention 329 Air Force: corruption in military was

rampant 102 -- General: treated Mort like his son 94 -- Mort enlisted in Air Force 82, 84-90 -- racism in military 106 Alarcon, Francisco: mention 474 Alegria, Fernando: Changing centuries:

selected poems of Fernando Alegría ; translated by Stephen Kessler. (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1984) 478

Aleixandre, Vicente: Destruction or love: a selection from La destrucción o el amor of Vicente Aleixandre. Trans. by Stephen Kessler. (Santa Cruz, CA., Green Horse Press, 1976) 478

Alexander, Robert: his anthology The Party Train included a discussion of Mort’s The Armies Encamped in the Fields Beyond the Unfinished Avenues. 547

-- The Party train: a collection of North American prose poetry / edited by Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz & C.W. Truesdale. (Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers Press, 1996) 547

Alexie, Sherman: mention 522 All Happy Families: or is it “happy

families are unhappy” 44, 371-380 Ambler, Eric: mention 286, 367 Ancheta, Shirley: dedicated “Carabao”

to Al Robles 366 -- one of Joe Stroud’s students 364 -- one of Mort’s excellent students 364,

558 -- photo credit (for p. 365) 583

-- Poem Permissions 585 -- Poems: “Carabao” 366-367 -- women’s issues are one focus of her

poetry 366 Ancheta, Shirley & Jeff Tagami photo:

(San Francisco, 1985) 365 Anderson, Cheryl: announced she

contracted to conduct “The Peace of Wild Things” at Carnegie Hall, June 19, 2007 568

-- director, three chorale groups 567 -- group photo (New York, 2007) 567 -- photo w/Marcus & Lynn Trapp (New

York, 2007) 568 Anderson, Cheryl & John: Mort,

Donna, Imant, Cheryl & John became good friends 568

Anderson, Jack: poet 522 Anderson, John: director, Ensemble

Monterey Chamber Orchestra 567 -- group photo, New York, 2007 567 Anderson, Len: Poetry Santa Cruz

reading series reinvigorated by Dennis Morton and Len Anderson 560

Anderson, Sherwood: mention 199 Andreasen, Nancy: Mort succeeded her

as President of the Cabrillo Teachers’ Union 519

-- Penelope Martin’s roommate 515, 519 -- was President of the Teachers’ Union

AFT at Cabrillo 519 Andreasen, Nancy & Andy: hosts to

Richard & Penelope Martin & Marcuses 515-517

Andric, Ivo: Yugoslav Nobel Prize writer, quoted 428

Anti-Semitism: Mort experienced it at Iowa 139-141

-- Mort was confronted with 61-62, 188 Aplon, Roger: mention 197 -- Rusty Scupper bistro at Ghrardelli

Square, SF 191, 193 Argos, Greece: mention 333-336 Aristophanes: Mort’s favorite writers

cited in portion of interview by Bloomsbury Review quoted: Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536

Armens, Sven: mention 150



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Armenians at Fresno, CA 460-463 Armstrong, Jack: mention 37, 51 Armstrong, Louis: mention 65 Artists’ Liberation Front: Chapter 19 -- dissolved in 1967 219 -- George Hitchcock was chairman of

the Neighborhoods Committee 212-213

-- met last in January 1967 at San Francisco’s Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park 211

-- Mort met Tillie Olsen there 242 -- name proposed & debated 208-209 Aschbacher, Jim: and wife, Liza Jensen,

accompanied the McDougals & Marcuses in France, 2001 416

-- and wife, Liza Jensen, accompanied the McDougals & Marcuses to Bern, Switzerland, in 2005 for the opening of the Paul Klee Museum 417

-- photo (at Santa Cruz, 1999) 416 Athens, Greece: mention 255, 355, 575 -- Chapter 33: Athens … Atkinson, Charles “Chuck”: The only

cure I know (La Jolla, Calif.: San Diego Poets Press, ©1991) won American Book Series Award, 1991 560-561

Australia & Tahiti: three-week tour of Australia’s East coast for a poetry reading 234, 489-497

-- travel cost was prohibitive - Mort declared he would ask Cabrillo College President Swenson for fares 224, 489

Australian poets & Aboriginals: proposed to tour California & the Southwest 495-497

Ayia Galini, Crete: mention 347 B Babczuk, Morris Jacob (Mort’s grand-

father) (Babchock, Babjic) 8-9, 14 Baca, Jimmy Santiago: contact for tour

of AZ & New Mexico 502 Balzac, Honoré de: mention 113-114,

116 Balzac/zack Family: Mort’s family

name Bebchick changed to Balzac 8-9, 113

Band, Charles Daniels’: mention 415 Barden, Geoffrey: mention 498 Bartlett, Lee: interviewed 1988 William

Everson about the Bly incident 383 -- Poem Permissions (William Everson):

585 Baseball: batted .400+ (freshman) 63 -- had regular games in Harrison 55 -- invited 20 kids to play in rear field 40 -- Lick-Wilmerding 3-run homer 200 -- Mort played a passable game 37 -- sandlot baseball in park 57-59, 79 -- sports scholarship at Irving 68 -- summer camp developed game 60, 67 -- suspension over, baseball again 71 -- Uncle Leo taught Mort the funda-

mentals 26 Basin Street East (NY jazz club) 79 Basketball: was Mort’s passion 57-60,

62-63, 66-74, 78-81, 89, 91, 109-110, 137, 165, 186, 200, 233, 455

Bass, Ellen: Mules of Love: Poems (Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2002) - won the Lambda Award, 2005 560-561

Bay Area Television Consortium: suspended, Mort & Stuart bought project 475-476

Beagle, Peter S.: mention 277 -- Cabrillo College poetry series 228 -- group photo (Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 -- read at Memorial for Ken. Patchen at

City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 314 Beal, Tandy : mention 360 -- Jon Scoville is composer-husband of

Tandy Beal 465 Beal, Tandy Dance Co.: Sara Wilbourne

asked Mort to write a dance idea, she was a dancer in a Tandy Beal Dance Co. production 464-465

Bean Hollow Beach aka Frijoles Beach, San Mateo County, was a stopping point for Mort and Vasko Popa 246

Beatles: mention xv -- debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show

178, 182 Bebchick: Mort’s family name Bebchick

changed to Babchock, Babczuk, Babjic, Balzac, Balzack, Balzak 8-9, 113



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Bebchick Family (Morris Jacob Babczuk & Anna Chana Isman) 8

Bebchick, Carol “Cousin Carol”: mention 20-24, 37, 42, 52, 58, 411

-- Leo, Carol and their children were insulted by Rachel 529

-- photo: with Mort (New York, 1937) 21 Bebchick, Ida “Aunt Ida”: mention 24 Bebchick, Leo “Cousin Leo” -- mention

11, 20-28, 30, 36-37, 42, 52, 54, 62, 64, 82, 484, 516-517

-- “fear not, and do right” 516-517, 520 -- Leo accompanied Mort when he

enlisted in the Air Force 82 -- Leo, Carol and their children were

insulted by Rachel 529 -- photo: Rachel, Leo & Bertha

(Catskills, 1950) 22 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot iii -- photo: U.S. Army, World War II 20 -- photo: with Mort (Brooklyn, 1946) 26 Bebchick/Babchick, Abe “Uncle Abe”:

mention 4, 8-14, 19, 23-25, 38 -- Daily News report on his murder 12 -- NY papers report on his murder 13 -- photo: Brooklyn, 1932 9 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 3 -- poem: “Uncle Abe” 10-11 Bebchick/Babjic, Rachel “Rae” (Mort’s

mother) [born 12/24/1907 29-31; died 1/22/2002 at 94) 532]: -- mention 8, 11-14, 21, 29-44, 46, 175, 375, 486

-- appeared in General’s office and the event branded Mort as a VIP in the Air Force 93

-- arranged Mort’s employment at 15-years old 74

-- called Mort “a real mensch” (one of noble character) 531

-- divorced Pincus Max Marcus (Mort’s father), 1944 29

-- grief stricken at Mort’s suspension from Irving Sch.) 70

-- her last days 524 -- insulted Wilma on their first meeting

122 -- Leo, Carol and their children were

insulted by Rachel 529

-- made sure Mort attended theater and opera 67

-- married to a great-nephew of Theodor Herzl 529

-- married to Laurence “Larry” Siegel, her 4th marriage of 5 29

-- married to Pincus Max Marcus (Mort’s father), 1935, her 2nd marriage of 5 29-31

-- Mort became his mother’s conservator 530-531

-- Mort realized that she wanted a superior status 64, 68

-- Mort recalled how insulting Rachel had been to Wilma and Donna 529

-- Mort said that “My Mother was a Beautiful Woman” 532

-- moved to California in 1995, she was 88 528

-- Rachel “Rae”, Cousin Leo, & Aunt Bertha Bebchick/Balzak (Catskills) 22

-- retired to residence in Monterey: “I want to die at a good address” 529

-- urged that Mort should travel to Europe to learn more about other cultures 324

-- warmed up to Donna - and Mort observed that Donna is “the only person my mother ever trusted and loved” 530

-- went to Iowa for Mort’s graduation 155

Bebchick/Balzac, Isaac Bob “Uncle Ike” 8, 14, 24

Bebchick/Balzack, David “Uncle David, Uncle Dave” 8, 24

Bebchick/Balzak, Bertha “Aunt Bertha” 8-9, 11-14, 20-26, 42, 328

-- photo: with Rachel & Leo 22 Bebchick/Balzak, Frank “Uncle

Frankie”: mention 8-9, 14, 24-25 -- photo: Brooklyn, 1939 24 Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot

characters Estragon & Vladimir 248 Beechwood School (Rye, NY) 31-33 Beery, Wallace: George Hitchcock was

compared to 212 “Be-In”: First was held at San

Francisco’s Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967 211



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Bell, Marvin: mention 191 Benedikt, Michael: The Prose Poem ; an

International Anthology (New York: Dell, ©1976) 533

Beneke, Tex: mention 52 Bennett, Tony: Mort & Uncle Leo heard

him on radio 42 Berg, Peter: mention 206 Berg, Stephen: mention 130 Bergman, Ingmar: mention 67 Bergmann, Gustav (philosopher at Iowa)

: mention 145-146 Berkeley: poetry readings 237, 252,

272, 274, 458 Berle, Milton: mention 52 Berriault, Gina: mention 202 -- and Leonard Gardner: consulted with

Mort regarding Donna Mekis 271 -- Chapter 26: (with Leonard) 268-274 -- died of cancer, 1999 272 -- her novel A Conference of Victims

(New York, Antheneum, 1962) 268 -- her novel The Descent (New

York, Antheneum, 1960) 268 -- her novel The Son (New York: New

American Library, 1966) 268 -- Mort bought Gina a Minerva’s owl

statute in Greece 271 -- Mort introduced Kirby Wilkins to

Leonard Gardner & Gina in SF 484 -- Mort took Jeff Tagami to dinner with

Leonard Gardner, Gina Berriault, and Clancy Carlile 365

-- North Point Press published some of Gina’s books 271

-- photo: (1970s) 270 -- reunited w/Leonard Gardner 269-270 -- she and Leonard Gardner were

breaking up 269 -- The Stone Boy (TLC Films ; director,

Chris Cain, 1994) screenplay produc-ed into independent film 270-271

-- urged Mort to write his biography 271 -- Women in their Beds (Washington,

D.C.: Counterpoint, c1996) 271 Berry, Wendell: mention 567 Big Brother and the Holding Company

(rock band): mention 207 Birdland (New York jazz club) 79

Bishop, Elizabeth: Mort used as model 112

Blair Academy (Maimi, FL) mention 79, 113, 122

-- athletes expelled with bad grades 80 Blau, Herbert: mention 189 Bloomsbury Review: Ray González

conducted interview of Al Young for The Bloomsbury Review 319

-- Ray González conducted interview of Mort Marcus for The Bloomsbury Review 534, 536, 541

Bly, Robert: -- mention 149, 362, 557 -- American poetry: wildness and

domesticity. (New York: Harper & Row, c1990) 312

-- Chapter 30 is all about Bly 300-312 -- compared to Donald Justice 190 -- compared to Lou Harrison 441 -- editor of Fifties and Sixties literary

magazines 190, 300 -- George Hitchcock “modeled Kayak

after a lot of Bly’s ideas” 301 -- his Iron John book was the source of

his Cabrillo College Poetry Series reading (Iron John: a book about men (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990) 311

-- Hall, Gregory: Bly liked his work 362 -- his resistance poetry against the

Vietnam War (e.g.: Artists and writers protest against the war in Viet Nam) 301-302

-- in re Cabrillo College poetry series 227

-- in regard to the Robert Bly chapter of his book (#30) Jack Marshall advised Mort to “forget it” 390

-- insulted William Everson, and George Hitchcock “read Bly the riot act” 383

-- James Dickey mention in Mort’s commentary on Bly 302

-- Jim Wright and Mort compared as ruthless 308

-- John Logan’s reputation enhanced by Bly’s article about him in Fifties 194

-- Kayak was Robert Bly’s target of criticism 302

-- Kenneth Rexroth commented about Bly 300



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-- later explained his views in the Robinson Jeffers Newsletter 383

-- Mezey and Bly gave a reading at UCSC, 1970 302-305

-- Mort & Wilma had to hitch a ride home after the Marin Writers’ Conference, because Bly disappeared 307

-- Mort analyzes Bly’s work, ultimately (p. 312) calls Bly “a bully” 310

-- Mort invited Bly to read at Cabrillo, and Bly critiqued the writing of Mort’s students 309

-- Mort Marcus, William Everson, and George Hitchcock, sat in front row at 1st Cong. Church to hear Bly 382

-- News of the universe: poems of twofold consciousness / chosen and introduced by Robert Bly. (San Fran-cisco: Sierra Club Books, c1980) 310

-- photo: (New York, 1970) 301 -- Poem Permissions: (William Everson)

585 -- Poems: “The Teeth Mother Naked at

Last” (anti-Vietnam War poem) 303 -- published an anthology on Lorca &

Neruda 149 -- read at Cabrillo College Poetry Series

benefit reading 311 -- read at San Francisco State Univ. in

1966 301 -- read several times at Cabrillo College

poetry series 300 -- recovered after his reading tour at

Donna & Mort’s house 311 -- rejected Mort’s poems for The Fifties

301 -- told Wilma that Mort was ruthless &

that his reading of “Toward Certain Divorce” was inexcusable, with Wilma in the audience 307

-- Twenty Poems of ... was a poetry series started by Bly, publishing the work of foreign poets 300

-- William “Bill” Everson and Bly had a run-in 311

-- William Everson wrote letter to Robert Bly, and later reconciled 383

Bogart, Humphrey: mention 201 Bond clothing store sign (NY) 52, 176

Bond, James: Mort could not read books about superheroes 367

Borges, Jorge Luis: Lawrence “Larry” Fixel compared to Kafka, Borges, Italo Calvino, Henri Michaux, Herman Melville 534

Bork, Maryann Carver (photo credit for p. 282) 583

Bouboulina (portrait of Greek woman admiral) at the National Historical Museum 330

Bourjaily, Vance Nye: Confessions of a Spent Youth (New York, Dial Press, 1960) 129

-- editor of Discovery magazine (New York, Pocket Books, 1953- ) 175

-- editor of New World Writing (Phila-delphia: J.B. Lippincott, -1964) 175

Bower, Ed & Inge Bower: Mort, Jana & Valerie drove to meet them to tour Bavaria with Bill Grant 409

-- their home was on Lake Amersee, south of Munich 407-408

-- photo: with Bill Grant (w/Waldi, Germany, 1979) 407

Boyer, Charles 67 Braddock, Joseph: to prep for travel

Mort read Braddock’s The Greek Phoenix (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973, c1972) 327, 330, 333

Breakfast Club: George Ow Jr., Sandy Lydon, Tony Hill, & Mort Marcus: mention 435, 520

-- photo: group photo 521 Brezhnev Memo: mention 368, 411 -- by Mort Marcus: the advance from

Dell/Delacorte paid for Mort, Jana & Valerie to travel to Europe, summer 1980 369

Brooks, Cleanth & Robert Penn Warren: Understanding Fiction (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959) 113

-- Understanding Poetry (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960) 113

Brovelli, Jim: All-American basketball coach 200

Brown, Tom: Tom Brown’s School Days (motion picture. Talisman/United



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Artists; produced by Brian Desmond-Hurst ; screenplay by Noel Langley ; directed by Gordan Parry. United Kingdom: Four Star, 1951.) 15

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: Michael Harper taught there 139

Brown, Gary: Capra Press to publish Mort’s work 275-281

-- his roommate, Dennis, and Mort, had dinner together at Gary Brown’s (Christmas, 1971) 275

-- taught at UC Santa Barbara Art Dept. 276

-- photo: with Morton Marcus (Santa Barbara, 1992) 275

Brown, Ian & Nan: mention 164 -- Mort found lodging with them for

Donna 262 Brown, Willie: California political leader

205-206 Brubeck, Dave: mention 360 Bruce, Lennart: died (2003 sic, i.e. 10

Jun 2002) 272-274 -- in re Cabrillo College poetry series

227 -- participated in collating party of

Kayak 214 -- Poem Permissions 585 -- Poems: “Dawn” 273 -- Poems: “Out Walking” 273 -- works published by Dennis Koran (at

Cloud Marauder Press, Berkeley, CA) 273

-- works published by George Hitchcock (at Kayak Press) 273

Bruce, Sonja: mention 272-274 -- Poem Permissions: (Len. Bruce) 585 Bukowski, Charles: read at UC Santa

Cruz for Raymond Carver 289-291 -- read with William Stafford at SF War

Memorial Vet’s Bldg. 292-293, 307 Bumpus, Jerry (fiction writer): mention

130, 153 Burnett, Pat & Vic (Air Force Chaplin’s

assistant): recommended State University of Iowa to Mort for its writing workshop program 118, 141

Bush, George W. (President): “The Big Brass Handbook” is Jack Marshall’s

long-running diatribe against the policies of President George W. Bush 393

Bynner, Witter: translation of Daodejing 77

C Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA: became

Mort’s focus 518 -- Charles Simic read there with great

success 295 -- cocktail party for Vasko Popa 251 -- Donna Mekis Marcus is advisor 458 -- Film History Class taught by Mort,

Fall 1983 474 -- in About the Author 589 -- Johnny “The Seed” Stamitis played

Greek music on his bouzoukee at a Cabrillo concert 325

-- Mort got a contract to teach in the English Department 220-221, 224

-- Mort hosted a poetry reading by Popa 245

-- Mort retired from teaching at Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 1998 560

-- poetry reading with Vasko Popa was success 248

-- Poetry Series: Robert Bly read there several times 300, 311

-- Sandy Lydon & Mort Marcus taught a Chinese literature class at Cabrillo College & had Deng Ming-Dao as guest 446

-- with the help of Jim Houston, Mort got an interview for a teaching job at Cabrillo 220

Cage, John: mention 360 -- Lou Harrison studied with Henry

Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, & John Cage 443

Ciardi, John: John Ciardi Prize 560 -- Mid-Century American Poets by John

Ciardi (New York: Twayne, 1950) (aka Twayne’s anthology) 112

California Labor Council: investigated violations at yeshiva 188

California Labor School: mention 212



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California School of Mechanical Arts: aka Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco: mention 198

Calvino, Italo: Lawrence “Larry” Fixel compared to Kafka, Borges, Italo Calvino, Henri Michaux, Herman Melville 534

Camus, Albert: The Myth of Sisyphus was great influence on Mort Marcus 146, 153, 400

Capitola Book Company: published a reprint of Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 281

Carlile, Clancy: Gina Berriault & Leonard Gardner helped with Clancy’s manuscripts and encouraged him 271

-- Honky Tonk Man was his novel, filmed by Clint Eastwood 270

-- Leonard Gardner read galley of Clancy’s last novel Paris Pilgrims 272

-- Mort took Jeff Tagami to dinner with Leonard Gardner, Gina Berriault, and Clancy Carlile 365

-- Spore 7 was his novel, a medical disaster (NY : Morrow, 1979) 270

Carnegie Hall, NY City: The Peace of Wild Things by Imant Raminsh is the song cycle for large chorus and full orchestra that included Mort’s poetry, performed in May 2006 and taken to Carnegie Hall 19 Jun 2007 and the East Coast in 2008 567-568

-- photo: Mort & Imant Raminsh (New York, 2007) 569

Carroll, Paul: editor of The Young American Poets anthology (Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1968) 237

Carver, Maryann: mention 242, 283-287

-- her sister Amy mention 242, 285 -- Maryann, Ray Carver’s wife, Mort,

and others would go to dinner after the collating parties in San Francisco 242

-- Photo Credit: (Maryann Carver Bork) 583

-- taught high school in Los Altos 286-287

Carver, Raymond “Ray”: mention 242, 277, 382, 384, 476

-- A New Path to the Waterfall (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1989) 283

-- Capra Press published his Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1983) 294

-- Capra Press published his Furious seasons and other stories [Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1977] 294

-- compared to Ernest Hemingway and vice versa 313-319

-- Denny Schmitz was student of John Logan, mentor of Raymond Carver, located in Sacramento 458

-- died of lung cancer, August 2, 1988 (aged 50) 294

-- employed as Ad writer for Science Research Associates 286-287

-- Fires: essays, poems, stories [Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1983.] 291

-- he taught at UC Santa Cruz’ College 5, 1971 289

-- his sister-in-law, Amy, and George Hitchcock did skits together at the Kayak collating parties 242

-- in re Cabrillo College poetry series 227-228

-- met with Noel Young at Swanton Corn Roast 293

-- Mort met Ray at George Hitchcock’s collating party for Kayak 284

-- Mort taught a UC Extension course at which he had Raymond Carver and William Everson as guests 382

-- participated in collating party of Kayak 214

-- photo: Sunnyvale, 1971 282 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 267 -- Poem Permissions: 585 -- Poems: “Happiness” 284 -- Poems: “You Don’t Know What Love

Is” in Ray’s collected poems: Fires 290 -- quoted “In 2020” viii -- read at Memorial for Ken. Patchen at

City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 314 -- Short Stories: “Distance” 294 -- Short Stories: “Fat” 285, 287 -- Short Stories: “Neighbors” 285, 287 -- Short Stories: “So Much Water So

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-- Short Stories: “Steelhead Summer” became “Nobody Said Anything” 287

-- Short Stories: “The Student’s Wife” 285

-- Short Stories: “What Is It?” changed to “Are These Actual Miles?” 287

-- Short Stories: “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please” 285

-- subject of Chapter 28: 282-294 -- truncated short story “So Much Water

So Close to Home” 270 -- What We Talk About When We Talk

About Love - was Carver’s third book of short stories, 1981 270, 287-288, 294

-- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - dedicated his book to Mort 283

-- Winter Insomnia: poems / by Raymond Carver ; prints by Robert McChesney. (Santa Cruz, CA. : Published and distributed by Kayak Books, c1970) 313-319

-- Winter Insomnia - published by George Hitchcock 285

-- with Maryann - Cupertino, Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County, CA) became their home 286

Castillo, Ana: mention 541 Castro, Fidel: invited George Hitchcock

to Havana for the 8th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution 215

Catalano, Mike: Melting Trees published by Mike Catalano 539

Catalyst, The (original): Lou Harrison & Bill Colvig played at this late-1960s Santa Cruz coffeehouse 439

-- the manager [Al DiLudovico] invited Mort to read at this late-1960s Santa Cruz coffeehouse 439

Caulfield, Holden (Mort, to his classmates, personified Caulfield) 68

Cernuda, Luis: Written In Water: The Prose Poems Of Luis Cernuda / translated by Stephen Kessler (San Francisco: City Lights Books, c2004) 478

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de : Mort’s favorite writers cited in portion of interview by Bloomsbury Review

quoted: Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536, 580

Chandler, Raymond: mention 367 Chandler, Wilma Kantrowich Marcus

& Morton Marcus see Kantrowich, Wilma and Marcus, Wilma

-- Wilma, Jana & Valerie Marcus: photo (1969) 225 -- photo: thumbnail photo ii Chania, Crete: mention 347-348, 354-

355 Charlie: husband of Headmistress of

Beechwood School 32-33 Charlie Daniels Band: mention 415 Chavez, Cesar: mention 211 Chekhov, Anton: mention 199, 287-

289, 569, 580 Cherry, Don: mention 562 Cheshire Academy: Rachel arranged

entrance for Mort 73, 78-79 Cheuse, Alan: commentator for NPR

radio, writer of novels & short stories 556

-- Fall Out of Heaven: an autobiographi-cal journey (Salt Lake Cy: G.M. Smith, 1987) [used as Fall from Heaven] 556

-- Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing (New York: Col-umbia University Press, c2001) 556

-- Lost and old rivers: stories (Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 1998) 556

-- member of Foothill Writers’ Conference faculty 556

-- photo: (portrait, 2007) 556 -- The Grandmothers’ Club (Salt Lake

City: Peregrine Smith Books, c1986) 556

-- The Tennessee Waltz and other stories (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, c1990) 556

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, SF: mention 434

Chinese restaurant in Ukiah: inedible meal mention 235

Chino, Jorge: El Andar founded by Chino in Watsonville 473-474

Chora Sfakia: Mort & Karen got a boat to 354



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Christian residents: produced petition to have Mort fired from teaching position because they didn’t want a Jew teaching their children, but School Board at Point Arena did not act on the petition 170

Cinema Scene: mention 560 -- About the Author 589 City Lights Bookshop: mention 206,

273 -- Mort met Andrei Codrescu outside

City Lights Bookshop in SF, 1972 397 City Lights Poetry Theater : Al Young

was master-of-ceremonies at reading in Memorial for Kenneth Patchen at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313

Clay, Cassius: Heavyweight Boxing Champion 182

Cloisters (NY museum): mention 79 Codrescu, André: mention 277, 387 -- a Romanian immigrant 397 -- “The Mystic Twang” was his lengthy

review of Mort’s first three books, including Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 400

-- “The Ultimate Deadline” - a radio commentary, quoted 402

-- An involuntary genius in America's shoes (and what happened afterwards) (Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, c2001) (cited as The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius) 398

-- André is the mask behind the mask - according to Mort Marcus 399

-- Casanova in Bohemia: a novel (New York: Free Press, c2002) 399

-- excerpts quoted from The Disappearance Of The Outside: A Manifesto For Escape (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, c1990) 402-403

-- hundreds of his commentaries on NPR radio are gems 399


-- It Was Today: New Poems (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, c2003) 398, 402

-- License to Carry a Gun (Chicago, Big Table Pub. Co., 1970) 398, 400

-- Messiah: a novel (New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999) 403

-- Monsieur Teste in America & other instances of realism: short stories. (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1987) 402

-- Mort met Andrei outside City Lights Bookshop (SF, 1972) 397

-- photo: portrait (New York, 1970) 397 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 357 -- Poem Permissions 585 -- Wakefield (Chapel Hill, N.C.:

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004) 403

Coffey, Jack: teacher at Lick-Wilmerd-ing High School, SF 198-199

-- teacher at Lick-Wilmerding probably told Deng about Mort’s Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 455

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: co-founded English Romantic movement 414

-- his “sacred river in ‘a mighty fountain’” 533, 535-536

Collins, Al “Jazzbo”: in Purple Grotto 68 Coltrane, John: mention 562 Columbia University: recommended for

graduate work by Prof. Mei 155 Colvig, William “Bill”: died in Aptos,

2000 444 -- Mort & Bill sometimes saw each other

at the laundry after Mort’s breakup with Wilma 440

-- partner of Lou Harrison mention 438 Commission Bailes Artes : Latino arts

group in San Francisco 206-207 Committee, The: San Francisco comedy

troupe: mention 205-206 Connelly, Michael: mention 367 Constantinople: mention 331, 338 Cool Breeze (friend of Tennessee) 55-57,

59-60, 63 Copland, Aaron: mention 360 Copper Canyon Press: published two of

Joseph Stroud’s books 236 Copperfield: “David Copperfield” by

Charles Dickens (BBC America & WGBH Boston movie) 15

Cortázar, Julio: Salvo el crepúsculo. (English Title - Save twilight: selected poems of Julio Cortázar / translated



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by Stephen Kessler) (San Francisco: City Lights Books, c1997) 478

Cottrell, Leonard: to prep for travel Mort read Cottrell’s The Bull of Minos (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962, c1958.) 327, 332-333

Country Joe and the Fish (rock band): mention 207

Cowell, Henry (composer): Lou Harrison studied with Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, & John Cage 443

Cowell, Henry (SC land owner) 224 Cowley, Malcolm: student in Jim

Houston’s fiction writing class 164 Coyro, Dan: photo credit (for p. xiii, 580)

583 Cravat, Nick (w/Burt Lancaster) 52 Creative Arts Books: mention 318, 543 -- publisher terminated business 540 Creeley, Robert: at State University of

NY at Buffalo 194 -- read at the Marin Writers’ Conference

306 Crenner, Jim: mention 127, 129 Crete, Greece: Chapter 35 all about

Crete 347-356 Croatia: (Chapter 41) 418-428 -- Croatian population of Watsonville

attended Popa’s reading 248 -- Donna Mekis is 3d generation 373 -- Donna writing a book on Croatian

immigration to California 377, 435 -- Mort’s first trip to Croatia (with

Donna, 1989) 355; 2nd trip 2005 379 -- photo: Brotnice (gravestone, ‘06) 428 -- photo: Cavtat (1989) 420 -- photo: Konavle Valley (1989) 419;

typical cottage (1989) 421; typical vegetation (2006) 426

-- photo: Mekis Family ancestral home (2006) 423

-- war in Croatia 257, 424, 427 Crome, Sarah: teacher at Lick-

Wilmerding High School 199 Cugat, Xavier: mention 52 Cummings, E. E.: mention 567 Curtis, Charles III: mention 61-62 Czechoslovakia: history 550-554 -- Hanzlicek, Charles (Czech-American)

459-460

-- photo: in Prague with Hradcany Castle (on hill, 2006) 551

-- photo: Mort in Prague at Vltava River (Charles Bridge, 2006) 549

D Daniels, Charlie Band: mention 415 Daodejing: mention 77-78, 147-149,

449 Dassin, Jules: Never on Sunday (Lopert

Pictures ; associate producer, Vassily Lambiris ; director, Jules Dassin ; author, Jules Dassin ; screenplay, Jules Dassin. 1960.) 325

Dave: see Bebchick/Balzack, David “Uncle David, Uncle Dave”

Davies, Dennis Russell: mention 360 -- was conducting the Flying Dutchman

in Bayreuth for 2 days 409-410 Davis, Miles (jazz musician): mention 79 Davis, Ron: director of the San

Francisco Mime Troupe 205-206 -- packed meeting of ALF with Mime

Troupe and members of the DuBois Club 208

Day, Richard: Humboldt State University fiction writer 285

Deck, John A.: in re Cabrillo College poetry series 228

-- photo: (group, Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 Deck, John A. & Harriet: longtime

friends of Robert Peterson, John, a Santa Cruz novelist 464

-- were friends of Clancy Carlile’s 272 Del Mar Theater: Mort aided in the

purchase of the Del Mar Theater, Santa Cruz 520

Dempsey, Jack: mention 49 Denver Quarterly: mention 539 De Sica, Vittorio (filmaker): mention 67 Dewey, Thomas mention 9 Dickens, Charles: mention 65 -- Mort read Oliver Twist 15 Dickey, James: mention 150 -- mention in Mort’s commentary on Bly

302 Dickinson, Emily: Joseph Stroud saw

Dickinson’s manuscript letter at the Library of Congress 236



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Dientzenhofer, Christoph & his son, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer: designers of Prague’s landmarks 549, 552

Dillman, Lisa: mention 550 DiPrima, Diane: in re Cabrillo College

poetry series 227 Divakaruni, Chitra: mention 476 -- one of Mort’s outstanding students

362, 364 Donne, John: mention 199, 559 Dorfman, Ariel: Viudas. (English Title:

Widows / Ariel Dorfman ; translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler. New York: Pantheon Books, c1983) 478

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Brothers Karamazov (London: Dent, 1927) 199, 358

-- Mort Marcus used his work as basis for a Senior Honors Thesis at State University of Iowa 150

Dow, Phil: mention 193 Dresden, Max: and his daughter Jana

(for whom Mort & Wilma named their own first-daughter) 144-145, 155

Du Bois Club: Ron Davis packed meeting of ALF with Mime Troupe and members of the DuBois Club 208

Duncan, Robert: mention 562 -- read at Memorial for Kenneth Patchen

at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313

-- read his poems with Donald Justice, Gary Snyder, & Mort 191

Dunn, Geoffrey “Jeff”: member, Breakfast Club 520

-- member, Steering Committee, Pacific Rim Film Festival 521

-- photo: Breakfast Club group 521 Durrell, Lawrence: mention 277 E Eastwood, Clint : mention 185 -- Honky Tonk Man was Clancy Carlile’s

novel filmed by Clint 270 Eberhart, Richard: Poem, beginning of:

“If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness” 226

Eckstine, Billy (vocalist): mention 79

Edson, Russell: mention 522 -- Mort reviewed his The tunnel: selected

poems, for Peter Johnson’s journal (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, c1994) 537-538

Edwards, Julie & Rob: Tillie Olsen was the mother of Julie Olsen Edwards & mother-in-law of Rob Edwards, both colleagues at Cabrillo Col. 519

Egg cream: mention 26, 47 Eiseley, Loren C.: The Immense Journey

(New York: Random House, 1957) 151-152

Eisenhower, Dwight David (President): mention 75, 134

Eisenstein, Sergei: Russian film director - mention 509

El Corno Emplumado: Mexican literary journal 210

Eliot, Thomas Stearns: mention 113, 199

Ellis, Don: publisher of Creative Arts Books, Berkeley, CA 318, 566

-- of Creative Arts Book Company asked Mort to publish a book of poetry, but Mort could only pull together 48 poems 555

Ellman, Richard: Selected Writings: The Space Within by Henri Michaux. Translated with an introd. by Richard Ellman. (New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1968) 533

Elytis, Odysseus: Mort met him for coffee at Zonar’s, a fancy restaurant on Amelia Ave., Athens, Greece 331

Engle, Paul: head of writer’s workshop at Iowa 118, 123, 125-130, 137, 155, 159

-- Univ. of Iowa’s international translation center 244

Erickson, Frank: a NY bookie, visited Max Marcus often 487

Esquire magazine: sponsored readings at Iowa 142

Ettlinger, Marion: photographed Maryann Carver 282

Everson, Susanna: mention 386 Everson, William “Bill” (aka Brother

Antoninus): mention 277 -- and Mort had same birthday 382



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-- and Mort Marcus, and George Hitchcock, sat in front row at 1st Cong. Church to hear Robert Bly 382

-- awardee of “Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year” 560

-- Bly and Bill had a run-in 311 -- Chapter 38 is all about “Bill” 381-386 -- found out that he had Parkinson’s,

died 1993 383 -- Gary Young was student of Bill

Everson’s at UC Santa Cruz 543 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 228 -- Mort Marcus suggested to Everson

that he go to see a doctor 383 -- Mort taught a UC Extension course at

which he had Raymond Carver and William Everson as guests 382

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 -- photo: portrait (Santa Cruz 1972) 381 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 357 -- Poem Permissions 585 -- Poems: “A Canticle to the Water

Birds” 381 -- Poems: “In All These Acts” 384-386 -- Robinson Jeffers was a mentor to

Everson 386 -- taught printing and poetry at UC

Santa Cruz 381-382 -- wrote letter to Robert Bly, and later

reconciled 383 Eversz, Robert: mention 550 Everwine, Peter: poet of Iowa, mention

137, 459, 462 F Farandouris, Maria: touring with Mikis

Theodorakis popular Greek composer on his tour of Greece 329

Farewell to Manzanar: (San Francisco Book Company/Houghton Mifflin book, 1973) 260-261, 541

-- see also Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki & Houston, James D. “Jim”

Farrell, James T. (“Studs Lonigan”) 65 Fat City: Leonard Gardner’s Fat City

filmed by John Huston 270 Fellini, Federico (Italian filmmaker) 67 -- film I Vitelloni 141

-- film La Strada 141 -- film White Sheik 141 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: read poetry for

last meet of Artists’ Liberation Front at Polo Grounds, SF 211

-- read at Memorial for Kenneth Patchen at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313

Fiedler, Leslie A.: at State University of NY at Buffalo 194

Figuerro, Vinnie: Italian school mate 41 Fine, Benjamin (NY Times education

editor) told Rachel that Mort was “not educable” 82, 155

Finkel, Donald: gave advice on writing poetry (he was married to Constance Urdang, another poet) 123-124

First “Be-In” was held at San Francisco’s Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967 211

Fitts, Dudley: edited & translated South American poetry 300

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: his The Great Gatsby mention 160

-- The Last Tycoon; an unfinished novel. (With foreword by Edmund Wilson, notes by author. New York, Scribner, c1941) 319

Fitzmaurice, Mary: teacher at Lick-Wilmerding High School 199

Fixel, Justine: mention 219, 540 Fixel, Lawrence “Larry”: compared to

Kafka, Borges, Italo Calvino, Henri Michaux, Herman Melville 533


-- Mort showed prose poems to Fixel 537

-- organized reading at Prof. Mark Lin-enthal’s Marin County home (Linen-thal of San Francisco State Univ.) 304

-- published 2 books under Kayak imprint 218-219

-- read at the Marin Writers’ Conference 306

-- Truth, war, and the dream-game: selected prose poems and parables, 1966-1990 (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991) 533-535



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-- urged a reconciliation between Jack Marshall and Mort 393

-- with Justine Fixel: mention 540 Fleming, Gerald J. “Jerry”: mention

539-540 -- Barnabe Mountain Review (Lagunitas,

CA: Barnabe Mountain Review, 1995-) 540

-- photo: (Lagunitas, CA, 2005) 540 -- Poem Permissions 585 -- Poems: “Daily Spanking, Child Next

Door” 540 -- Swimmer climbing onto shore. (San

Francisco, CA: Sixteen Rivers Press, c2005.) 540

Flores, Angel: published an anthology on Lorca & Neruda from New Directions 149

-- translated Pablo Neruda 300 Foothill Writers Conference: mention

453 -- Mort was a faculty member 476, 556 -- photo: Lawson Inada & Mort 261 Forché, Carolyn: read at UC Santa Cruz

395 Fowles, John: The Magus [New York:

Modern Library, 1998.] 163 Frank, Anne: Jana, Valerie & Mort

visited her House in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 408

Franklin School 47, 53-54 Franklin, Benjamin: his Autobiography

mention 158 -- his “enlightened self interest” quoted

90, 571 Fraser, Kathleen “Kathy”: married Jack

Marshall 390 -- she and Wilma Marcus were good

friends 390 -- she arranged the Bukowski-Stafford

reading at SF’s War Memorial Veterans Bldg. [for more on Kathleen Fraser, see in MELVYL, UC online catalog, under Kathleen Fraser papers, 1957-2006] 292-293

-- refused to talk to Mort after he read “Toward Certain Divorce” at the Marin Writers’ Conference 307

Fred: Mort’s friend in Air Force: had a car 110, 112

Freddy (Freddie): Mort’s boyhood friend 50, 53, 55

Free Speech Movement, University of California-Berkeley, 1965 209

Fresno Armenians 460-463 Fresno State University: Chuck

Hanzlicek taught at Fresno SU 459 -- Phil Levine taught at Fresno Sta. 459 -- Robert Mezey wore armband as if

Fresno State Univ. wronged him 303 Frick Museum (New York museum) 79 Friedman, Ralph J. mention 150 Frost, Robert -- mention 112 -- gave a reading at Iowa 141 -- Mort compared William Stafford to

Frost 292 Fugazi Hall, North Beach, San

Francisco: scene of poetry readings “Freedom or Death” 219, 329

Fulmer, Gene vs. Sugar Ray Robinson: boxing match 141

Furnish, William: head of Iowa’s Geology Dept. 150-151

G Gail Rich Award 2007: About the

Author 589 -- Mort received the 2007 award 569 Gallagher, Tess: mention 286 Galli, Nicholas “Nick”: mention 376-

380, 525-526 -- Donna Mekis’ son, was two when

Mort and Donna met 373 -- graduated from UC in film production

528 -- Mort and Nick had problems 377-378 -- Mort’s talk with Nick in Croatia

recalled 378-380, 525, 528 -- photo: with Jana & Valerie (Santa

Cruz, 2003) 524 -- photo: with Mort at Mekis Family

gathering (Hollister, 2002) 378 -- What kind of guidance could Mort

give? 484 Garcia, Luis: after Lennart Bruce died

Leonard Gardner organized a Memorial at which Luis Garcia and Mort read 274



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Gardner, Leonard (Gardener): mention 202, 304

-- after Lennart Bruce died he organized a Memorial at which Luis Garcia and Mort read 274

-- Chapter 26 all about him 268-274 -- compared to Ernest Hemingway 268 -- consoled Sonja Bruce after Lennart

died 274 -- his first novel Fat City mention 268 -- Mort introduced Kirby Wilkins to

Leonard & Gina Berriault in SF 484 -- Mort told him about his novel The

Brezhnev Memo 368 -- Mort took Jeff Tagami to dinner with


-- photo credit (for p. 270) 583 -- photo, 1969 268 -- photo, Mort’s wedding day (Santa

Cruz, 1986) 376 -- read galley Clancy Carlile’s last novel

Paris Pilgrims 272 -- reunited with Gina Berriault 269 -- screenplay for his first novel, Fat City

269 -- thumbnail snapshot iii , 267 -- was best man at Mort’s wedding,

1986 270 -- watched Muhammad Ali boxing

matches with Mort and Joe Stroud 269

-- with Gina - attended Marin County reading 304-305

-- wrote segments for NYPD Blue TV series 270

Gatsos, Nikos: mention 337, 348 -- “Amorgos”: described by Mort 331-

332 -- had told Mort that Goethe set scene

in Faust from ruins of Mistra 338 -- Mort did not see him again 354 Gerber, John -- mention 150 Gerhard, Dietrich: mention 209, 407,

451, 514 -- at Washington University 475 -- taught history at Wash. Univ.: “one of

the finest teachers I’ve ever had” 114-117

Germany: Ed & Inge Bower were hosts to Bill Grant, Mort & girls 407-409

-- the Nazi Documentation Center in Berlin contains 1,200,000 SS files 407-408, 411, 414

-- photo: Jana & Valerie (1979) 409 Gershwin, George & Ira: mention 49 Getz, Stan (jazz musician): mention 79 Gielgud, John (Sir): gave a one-man

show at Iowa 141 Gilbert, Jack -- mention 193, 393-394 -- Chapter 39 includes section 387, 393 -- in re Cabrillo College poetry series

227 -- Michiko - Jack Gilbert’s second wife,

died of cancer mid-1980s 394, 396 -- Monolithos: poems, 1962 and 1982

was his second novel (Port Townsend, Wash.: Graywolf Press, c1982.) 396

-- Mort analyzed Jack’s poetry 393-394 -- Mort described Jack as “a realist

more than a romantic” 396 -- photo: portrait 394 -- Poem Permissions 585 -- Poems: “A Brief for the Defense” 396-

397 -- Poems: part of Jack’s poem

“Halloween” pictures Allen Ginsberg 396

-- Refusing Heaven: Poems (New York: Knopf, 2005) 396

-- The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 (New York: A.A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1994) 396

-- Views of Jeopardy (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1962) won the Yale Younger Poets Award 393, 396

-- with Linda Gregg - Joe Stroud was friend of Jack Gilbert & Linda Gregg 394-395

-- Yale Young Poet, 1965 195 Gilmore, Terry: Australian poet 494 Ginsberg, Allen: mention 199, 415 -- and Mort read at Kuumbwa Jazz

Center, Santa Cruz 478 -- Howl and Other Poems 126 -- in re Cabrillo College poetry series

227 -- mention by Charles Bukowski 290



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-- Poems: part of Jack Gilbert’s poem “Halloween” pictures Allen Ginsberg 396

-- read poetry for last meet of Artists’ Liberation Front 211

-- Wallace Stegner criticized Ginsberg’s poetry 159

Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco: mention 210

Godard, Jean Luc: film Breathless (aka A bout de souffle) 141

Gold, Herb: mention 209 González, Ray: Al Young interviewed by

Gonzalez for “A Lyrical Legacy” Mort’s piece published in Bloomsbury Review 319

-- Chapter 51 includes section: 541-543 -- conducted interview of Mort for The

Bloomsbury Review 541 -- Human crying daises / prose poems

by Ray González. (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, c2003) 541

-- Mort knew Gary Young longer 543 -- Mort wrote blurb for Ray’s book 542 -- No boundaries: prose poems by 24

American poets / edited by Ray Gonzalez. (Dorset, Vt.: Tupelo Press, 2003) 543

-- photo, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005 541

-- Poem Permissions 585 -- Poems: “Acoma, New Mexico” 542 -- Poems: “The Bird of Dreams” 542 -- published journal Luna and Mort’s

prose poems 541 -- The religion of hands: prose poems

and flash fictions (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2005) 541

-- Turtle Pictures (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2000) 541

Goodbye To The Twentieth Century: Epiloge essay by Mort 572-74

Goodman, Benny: mention 52 Goodman, Paul: poet, fiction writer,

social theorist - mention 66-67, 515 -- “Growing Up Absurd” 66 -- “The Break-Up of Our Camp” 66 Gorge of Samaria on the Island of Crete

331, 347-349, 351-352, 354 -- photo: Mort with walking stick 349

-- photo: Gorge (Crete, 1975) 350-351 -- St. Nicholas Chapel: mention 349,

353 Graham, Bill: promoter at Fillmore

Auditorium, San Francisco 206-207 Grant, William “Bill”: Cabrillo College

English Dept., met at the home of the Bowers in Germany 406-407

-- Mort, Jana & Valerie drove to meet Ed & Inge Bowers to tour Bavaria with Bill Grant 409

-- photo credit (for p. 373) 583 Grateful Dead (rock band): mention 207 Great Gatsby, The: by F. Scott

Fitzgerald 160 Great Santa Cruz Word Quake Benefit:

Joseph “Joe” Stroud and Mort organized a day long benefit for Santa Cruz bookshops held after 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake 234, 473

Greece: joined the European Union by 1989 355

-- military dictatorship of The Colonels who ruled Greece for 7 years 326, 329, 340

-- photos: Magic Walking Stick 323, 348 Greece, Crete: photo: Gorge of Samaria

(gnarled tree, 1975) 350 -- photo: Heraklion (at Kazantzakis’

grave, 1975) 323, 347 -- photo: Ruins of Samaria, 1975 351 -- photo: with magic walking stick,

Gorge Samaria, 1975 349 -- photos: Gorge of Samaria, 1975 323 Greece, Mistra: photo: main “street”,

1975 337 -- photo: ruins of the Byzantine church,

1975 338 -- photo: ruins of the great palace, 1975

337 Greece, Mycenae: photo: at the Lion’s

Gate, 1975 333 -- photo: grand pastoral entrance, 1975)

332 -- photo: Lion’s Gate, 1975 (thumbnail

snapshot) 323 Greece, Nauplion photo: (street scene

as it must have appeared, 1827) 334 Greece, Naxos: photo: lamb skins

drying, Easter, 1975 341



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-- photo: timbered passageway, 1975 340

Greek Museums: Benaki & Byzantine on Vasilissus Sofias Ave. 329

Greek National Archaeological Museum: Santorini Island’s Minoran neighborhood moved there 329

Greek National Historical Museum, Stadiou St., Athens 330

Greek Orthodox Church: Mort had a lifelong fascination with 339

Greenberg, Hank: mention 50 Gregg, Linda: mention 193, 396 -- she was Jack Gilbert’s first wife, a

poet 394 Griffith, Clark: mention 150 Griggs, Gary (photo credit for p. 227)

583 Griggs, Gary & Linda: mention 338 -- Mort left Athens without guidance

from 332 -- returned to U.S., Mort & Karen

visited Crete 347 -- with children: met Mort & girlfriend

at Athens airport 328 -- with Mort & Karen visited Paros

Island before Mort & Karen’s going on to Island of Naxos 340-341, 346

Guerard, Albert: mention 161 Guinness, Alec: mention 67 Gulliver’s Travels: mention 65, 159 H Hajidakis, Manos: Mort delivered

greetings to the Greek Minister of Culture from Valaoritis 330-331

Hall, Gregory “Greg”: one of Mort’s outstanding students; Flame People: Poems was Hall’s first book (Santa Cruz: Green Horse Press, 1977) 362, 364

-- Poems: “All the Women” 362-363 -- Poems: “It Is the Morning” 362 -- Poems: untitled 362-363 -- Poem Permissions 585 Hall, James B.: he hired George

Hitchcock at UC Santa Cruz 289 -- hosted a party at his Provost’s House,

UCSC 303, 307

-- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry series 227-228

-- photo group (Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 -- with Beth Hall: were kind to Mort 307 Hammett, Dashiell: mention 367 Hampl, Patricia: Donna & Mort were

impressed with Patricia Hampl and they went to dinner several occasions at famous cafés 550

Hanging Loose Press & Hanging Loose magazine: mention 522, 539, 547

Hanson, Nels: photo: (group Santa Cruz, 1972) 227

Hanzlicek, Charles “C. G.” “Chuck”: in re Cabrillo College poetry series 227

-- photo: Fresno, 2000 459 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 457 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Egg” 460 Hanzlicek, Charles “C. G.” “Chuck” &

wife, Dianne: met George Nazar in Fresno 462

-- Mort visited them in Fresno 459 Hanzlicek, Dianne: photo credit (for p.

459) 583 Harada, Sogaku (aka Harada-roshi —

Harada the teacher): mention 465-466, 471

Hardwick, Cedric (Sir): mention 67 Harper, Daniel: photo credit (for pgs.

229, 479) 583 Harper, Michael: mention 138-139 -- first Black poet in Iowa writers

workshop 129-130 Harris, Mark: Bang the Drum Slowly

(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, @1956) 142

Harris, Robert: mention 367 Harrison, Lou: Chapter 43: “Of Lou, A

Reminiscence Sing” 438 -- Charles Ives, composer friend of

Harrison 443 -- compared to Robert Bly 441 -- compared to Walt Whitman 439 -- Composing a world: Lou Harrison,

musical wayfarer by Leta E. Miller & Fredric Lieberman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2004) 441

-- died in Aptos Feb. 2, 2003 445



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-- Donna & Mort Marcus: planted the “Lou Harrison Laurel” 438

-- Harrison suggested that Vincent McDermott and Alan Hovhannes play together at Lewis & Clark College 441

-- his music was featured at Cabrillo Music Festivals 360

-- Jana Marcus focus on his works 360 -- Joys & perplexities: selected poems of

Lou Harrison. (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Jargon Society, 1992.) 440

-- Mort analyzes Lou Harrison’s music 443

-- Mort Marcus’ poem, “Dance” is set to Lou Harrison’s “4th Movement of Varied Trio” 442

-- Mort realized he would enjoy living in Santa Cruz w/ Lou Harrison, Bill Col-vig and Jim & Jeanne Houston 439

-- Mort sent his Moments Without Names to Lou Harrison (Moments without names: new & selected prose poems. (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2002) 444

-- Mort suggested to Lou that he write the score for Mort’s The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 466-468

-- Mort’s poem composed as he was “Listening to Lou Harrison’s Suite for Violin & American Gamelan Shortly after the Composer’s Death” 445

-- photo: Santa Cruz, 1992 439 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot ii, 431 -- presented Mort with “a laurel for the

Laureate” 438 -- studied with Henry Cowell, Arnold

Schoenberg, & John Cage 443 -- Virgil Thompson, composer friend of

Harrison 443 -- Wilma & Mort had recordings of Lou

Harrison’s music when they were in Iowa 439

-- with Bill Colvig: played at The Catalyst (original) 439

-- wrote music column for NY Herald Tribune 443

Harsany, David: photo credit (for p. 439) 583

Hass, Robert (U.S. Poet Laureate): mention 193-194, 197, 362

-- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry series 227

-- was reader for Czeslaw Milosz 257 Havel, Václav: was a patron of café that

Donna & Mort & Patricia Hampl visited, where Havel and friends planned the Velvet Revolution 550

Hawkes, John: mention 162 Hays, H. R.: (aka Hoffman Reynolds

Hays) edited & translated South American poetry 300

Hearst Castle: trip recalled 360, 408 Hearst, Patricia “Patty”: kidnap victim

of the Symbionese Liberation Army 413

Hecker, Leo quoted viii Hell’s Angels: mention 211 Hemingway, Ernest: mention 199 -- “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 72 -- compared to Raymond Carver and

vice versa 313 -- Joseph Stroud saw Hemingway’s

letter from McLeish about Ezra Pound at the Library of Congress 236

-- Leonard Gardner compared to Hemingway 268

-- Old Man and the Sea: mention 289 Hendrix, Jimi: mention 207 Heraklion: mention 355 -- Mort & Karen visited the historical

museum 347 -- photo: at Kazantzakis’ grave 347 Hernandez, Miguel: mention 300 Hersey, John: Hiroshima (New York:

A.A. Knopf, 1946) 171 Hershon, Robert “Bob” (poet): Chapter

49 includes section on him 521-523 -- his Hanging Loose Press 547 -- photo: New York City, 2005 522 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Calls from the Outside” 522-

523 Herzl, Theodor: Rachel “Rae”

Bebchick/Babjic, aka Rachel Babjic: had been married to a great-nephew of Theodor Herzl 529

Hill, Tony: Breakfast Club role explained 520

-- photo: Breakfast Club group 521 Hillerman, Tony: mention 367



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Hitchcock, Alfred: mention 286 -- film Vertigo was one of Mort’s favorites

155 Hitchcock, Eva: mention 212 -- Eva & George Hitchcock: separated

242 -- Eva & George Hitchcock, Mort and

Wilma had dinner in San Francisco to celebrate the arrival of Mort’s Origins, (published by George’s Kayak press, 1968) 241

Hitchcock, George: mention 283-285 -- alias for George Hitchcock in Western

Worker was “Lefty” 212 -- Bert Meyers & Mort met at Kayak

collating party at George’s house 564 -- called before House Un-American

Activities Committee: testified he was a gardener 212

-- commissioned Gary Brown to illus-trate Mort’s book, Origins 275-281

-- contributed to People’s Daily World 212

-- editor of Kayak: compared to Wallace Beery and Charles Laughton 212

-- Eva & George Hitchcock: separated 242

-- Gary Young purchased George’s Santa Cruz Mountains house 543

-- George & James D. “Jim” Houston reacted to Mort in similar ways 215-216

-- George, his wife Eva, Mort and Wilma had dinner in San Francisco to celebrate the arrival of Mort’s Origins, (published by George’s Kayak press, 1968) 241


-- invited Mort to publish poems in Kayak that he had previously written for Donald Justice 217

-- Joe Stroud was a student of his at San Francisco State University 228

-- Kayak Press published Lennart Bruce’s books 273

-- Kayak was Robert Bly’s target of criticism 302

-- modeled Kayak after a lot of Bly’s ideas 301

-- Mort invited George to Cabrillo College to read 226

-- Mort Marcus, and George Hitchcock, sat in front row at 1st Cong. Church to hear Robert Bly 382

-- Mort met Charles Simic at George’s collating party for Kayak 295

-- Mort met Hitchcock in San Francisco 189

-- Mort met Raymond Carver at George Hitchcock’s collating party for Kayak 284

-- Mort used Hitchcock’s theme of “state of heightened consciousness” 226

-- moved to Santa Cruz and published Kayak in Santa Cruz 286

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 -- photo: solo (Santa Cruz, 1972) 213 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 183 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Afternoon in the Canyon”

215-216 -- Poems: “Villa Thermidor” 215-216 -- published Mort’s Origins, and

Raymond Carver’s Winter Insomnia 285

-- Robert Bly insulted William Everson, and George Hitchcock “read Bly the riot act” 383

-- signed to publish Mort’s book (winter 1968) 220

-- urged Mort to visit Yugoslavia 418, 420

-- Vasko Popa’s visit was discussed with Charles Simic at George Hitchcock’s collating part for Kayak 295-296

-- was chairman of Neighborhoods Committee, Artist’s Liberation Front 206-207, 212-213

-- was founder of Kayak magazine, 1964 206-207, 212-213

-- was poetry editor of San Francisco Review 206, 212

Hitchcock, George & Marjorie: left for Oregon after 1989 Quake 473

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC): George Hitch-cock testified he was a gardener 212

Houston, Cori: played with Jana during visit to Point Arena in 1962 174



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Houston, Cori, Jeanne & Jim: Founding members, Steering Com-mittee, Pacific Rim Film Festival 521

Houston, James D. “Jim”: mention 184, 269, 277-278, 283, 472-473

-- “If you can’t trust the earth beneath your feet, what can you trust?” 473

-- “The Houstons Visit” (Point Arena, 1962) 174

-- and Jeanne Wakasuki Houston - members of Foothill Writers’ Conference faculty 556

-- Between Battles (New York, Dial Press, 1968) - Jim’s first novel 184

-- Bird of another heaven (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) 185

-- Californians: Searching for the Golden State (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982) 185

-- Gig - Jim’s second novel (New York, Dial Press, 1969) 184

-- got together with Noel Young as a result of the Capra Press connection 293

-- helped Mort get his MA at Stanford 220

-- his writing had improved 184 -- Holiday magazine published Jim’s

piece on the environment 184 -- Humanitas Award: won by Jeanne &

Jim Houston for screenplay 261 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 228 -- In The Ring of Fire: a Pacific Basin

Journey (San Francisco: Mercury House, c1997) 185

-- interceded on Mort’s behalf to defend against Wallace Stegner’s criticism of Mort 161

-- Jim helped his wife, Jeanne, write Farewell to Manzanar 259-260

-- Jim Houston and George Hitchcock reacted to Mort in similar ways 215-216

-- Mort discussed his relationship with Jim and his personal style 185-186

-- Mort met him at Stanford (1971) 164 -- Mort realized he would enjoy living in

Santa Cruz w/ Lou Harrison, Bill Col-vig and Jim & Jeanne Houston 439

-- photo: as Prince Valiant, (Santa Cruz, 1969) 241

-- photo: group photo, (Santa Cruz, 1972) 227

-- photo: Jim & Jeanne Wakasuki Houston (Santa Cruz, 1974) 259

-- photo: Jim & Jeanne Wakasuki Houston (snapshot) 223

-- photo: Jim & Jeanne Wakasuki Houston (thumbnail photo) ii

-- photo: Jim & Morton Marcus (Santa Cruz, 2000) 555

-- photo: solo (Santa Cruz, 1977) 164 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 157 -- photo: wedding party (Santa Cruz,

1986) 376 -- played bass with Red Mountain Boys

at Swanton Corn Roast 293 -- read at Lick-Wilmerding 200 -- read at Kenneth Patchen Memorial at

City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 314 -- set up a job interview for Mort at

Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 220 -- Snow Mountain Passage (New York:

Alfred A. Knopf, 2001) 185 -- Stegner Fellowship (Stanford U.) 314 -- told Mort that Mort had become in

tune with nature since arriving in Santa Cruz County 225

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki: mention 221

-- “The Houstons Visit” 174 -- and Jeanne Wakasuki Houston:

members of Foothill Writers’ Conference faculty 556

-- Farewell to Manzanar; a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973) 165, 541

-- helped Wilma & Mort with house hunting 224

-- her nephew called her about Manza-nar, but had trouble talking about this suppressed episode 259

-- photo: Jim & Jeanne Wakasuki Houston (Santa Cruz, 1974) 259

-- visited with Wilma during visit to Point Arena in 1962 174



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Hovhannes, Alan: Lou Harrison suggested that Vincent McDermott and Hovhannes play together at Lewis & Clark College 441

HUAC see House Un-American Activities Committee 212

Hudson School (New Rochelle, NY) 18 Humanitas Award: won by Jeanne &

Jim Houston for screenplay 261 Hume, David (philosopher) mention 146 Huston, John: filmed Fat City, Leonard

Gardner’s screenplay 269-260 Hypapanti, Crete: mention 354 I I-Thou Coffee Shop, San Francisco

209-210, 394 -- Laura Ulewicz, Steve Schwartz &

Mort: read poetry at I-Thou 219 Ignatow, David: author of The Gentle

Weightlifter 112, 214 -- participated in collating party of

Kayak 214 Ike see Bebchick/Balzac, Isaac Bob

“Uncle Ike” Iliad and the Odyssey: mention 333 Inada, Lawson: mention 129, 476 -- and wife, Jan Lawson 260 -- announced his marriage to Jan 165-

166 -- Greg Keith of Southern Oregon

University - introduced to Mort by Lawson Inada as “his best poetry student” 558

-- his Fresno & internment camp poems mention 541

-- Phil Levine’s student at Fresno 459 -- photo: Foothill Writers Conference

(Los Altos, 1993) 261 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1993 137 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 121 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “In a Buddhist Forest” 167 -- Poems: “The Stand” 166-167 -- Poems: part of “Concentration Camp

Constellation” quoted 138 -- Poems: part of “Looking Back at

Camp” quoted 139 -- poet, victim of anti-Japanese hatred

137-139, 165

-- worked with the Houstons on the Farewell to Manzanar film 260

Independent Socialist Forum: George Hitchcock was chair in SF 212

Iowa, State University of: Mort admitted to attend classes 118

-- Mort at Iowa (Chapter 11): 122-143 Irving School (Tarrytown, NY): mention

60-64, 67-68, 70, 74, 484, 514-516 -- Mort used its library when he was

fourteen 475 -- two more Jews admitted 68 Irving, Jules: mention 189 Island of Karpathos, Aegean Sea: Joe

Stroud and his girlfriend Rachel left Athens for Karpathos 329

Isman, Anna Chana (Mrs. Morris Jacob Babczuk) (Mort’s grandmother) (Babchock, Babjic) 8

Ives, Charles: composer friend of Lou Harrison 443

J J Jackson, Maddie: Black woman maid

when Mort @ 10-yrs. old 40-42, 59 Jackson, Richard: mention 550 Jacobsen, Rolf: mention 300 Jacobson, Julia: photo credit (for p.

477) 583 Jalãl al-Din Rumi: Mort’s favorite

writers cited 300, 536, 569 Jeffers, Robinson: C. Milosz’ poem “To

Robinson Jeffers” published 239-240 -- Joseph Stroud saw Jeffers’ manu-

script copy of “To the Stone Cutters” at the Library of Congress 236

-- photo: group at Tor House 203 -- Robert Bly later explained his views

in the Robinson Jeffers Newsletter 383 -- Tor House, Carmel, CA: mention 204 -- was a mentor to William Everson 386 Jefferson Airplane (rock band): mention

207, 211 Jenkins, Romilly James Heald

Byzantium: the imperial centuries, A.D. 610-1071. (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993, c1966) 339

Jensen, Lisa: photo: group 416



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-- she and husband, Jim Aschbacher, accompanied the McDougals & Marcuses to Bern, Switzerland, in 2005 for the opening of the Paul Klee Museum 417

-- she and husband, Jim Aschbacher, accompanied the McDougals & Marcuses (in France, 2001) 416

Jerome, Hank aka Herman Goldberg 76-77

Jewish heritage, Mort’s 5-6, 11, 19-20, 35, 37, 41, 50, 54, 60-61, 68, 73, 118, 140-141, 145, 170, 172, 184, 186-189, 218, 384, 393, 400, 410, 432, 451, 520, 556

Jiménez, Juan Ramón: mention 300 Jimmy (Mort’s “best friend”: a black kid)

57, 59-60, 63, 67 Joan of Arc Junior High School, NY

54, 60 Johansen, Ingmar vs. Floyd Patterson:

boxing match 141 Johnsen, Al (Johnson): potter, Big

Creek Pottery, Swanton, CA 228 -- Swanton Corn Roast founder 293 Johnson, Carol: mention 127 Johnson, Peter: mention 537, 541 -- “Travels with Gigi” from his Miracles

& Mortifications cited 538 -- awarded the James Laughlin Prize

from the Academy of American Poets 538

-- Eduardo & "I": prose poems. (Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine Press, c2006) 538

-- photo: (Rhode Island, 2005) 537 -- photo: (thumbnail snapshot) 511 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Pretty happy” 539 -- Pretty happy!: prose poems (Fredonia,

N.Y.: White Pine Press, c1997) 538-539

-- The Prose poem: an international journal (Providence, RI: Providence College, c1992-) 537-538

Johnson, Ronald: poetry reading at Berkeley 237

Jones, Spike: mention 52 Joplin, Janis: mention 207 Joyce, James: mention 78, 199

-- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 65

-- Ulysses 65 Juana Inés de la Cruz: Mexican poet, a

Nun 474 Justice, Donald: mention 125-130, 155,

158, 191, 198, 215, 303 -- award winning book The Summer

Anniversaries 132 -- compared to Robert Bly 190 -- Justice (in Chap. 11 section) 130-134 -- Mort Marcus accepted George

Hitchcock’s invitation to publish poems in Kayak that he had previous-ly written for Donald Justice 217

-- Mort thanked him for questioning poem 514

-- observed Actor’s Workshop of San Francisco 189

-- photo: thumbnail snapshot 121 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Pulitzer Prize winner 131 -- read his poems with Mort, Gary

Snyder, Robert Duncan 191-192 -- seen by Wilma Marcus on a San

Francisco street 189 K K Kabir, 15th Cent.: mention 300 Kafka, Franz: mention 65, 78, 159, 161 -- Lawrence “Larry” Fixel compared to


-- was a patron of café that Donna & Mort & Patricia Hampl visited 550

Kanaris (Admiral): Stephen showed Mort & Karen an amphora containing the heart of Kanaris 330

Kantrowich, Wilma see also Marcus, Wilma: mention 140-141, 144-145, 168, 180, 221, 239, 241-242, 246, 264-265, 269, 275, 295, 303, 306-307-309, 360, 388, 390, 439-440, 465, 515, 529

-- “Poem to Wilma”: mention 130” -- at Point Arena: 169-170 -- her father objected to her plan for

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-- in San Francisco 184 -- in Santa Cruz 224-225 -- lived near Hamilton Air Force Base:

became girlfriend 97, 122 -- Mort & Wilma in New York 175-178 -- named their daughter Jana after Max

Dresden’s daughter 144, 155, 161 -- Norman Thomas’ wife, Alice, worked

with Wilma in Palo Alto 162-163, 165 -- photo: thumbnail (Wilma & Mort) 157 -- photo: w/ Mort (New York, 1964) 176 -- photo: Wilma, Jana, Valerie (Santa

Cruz Mountains, 1969) 225 -- Rachel, Mort’s mother, had been cruel

and insulting to Wilma 529 -- she temporarily broke off her engage-

ment with Mort 110 -- was now his fiancée: but moved to

Florida 101 -- Wilma & Mort Marcus were married

122, 129 -- Wilma attended Iowa & taught stage

movement and dance 136 -- Wilma-Mort marriage failed 261-263 -- Wilma, Mort, Joan & Vern had pre-

arranged dinners together 135 Kapleau, Philip: The Three Pillars of

Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment (New York: Harper & Row @1965, 1966) 465

Karagiannopoulos, Vasili: Greek-American restaurant owner, one of Mort’s “lamed vovniks” 432

Karen: found her own walking stick 350, 352

-- Mort and girlfriend flew from CA to meet Mort in NY for trip to Greece 326

-- Mort and girlfriend toured Greece together (in 1975) 328-354

-- Mort and she broke it off again 374 -- Mort and she got back together 373 -- Mort’s student, had multi-

personalities: they broke off their relationship for 10th time 371-372

Katrovas, Richard: contracted Mort to teach a poetry composition class for the Prague Summer Probram, Summer 2006 550

Kaufman, Shirley: mention 193, 218 -- attended Marin Co. reading 304, 306

-- Cabrillo College poetry series 227 -- came to terms with Mort after he read

his “Toward Certain Divorce” at the Marin Writers’ Conference 307

-- photo: San Francisco, 1972 218 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Happy Endings” 218-219 -- read at the Marin Writers’ Conference

306 Kayak (journal, magazine, periodical):

mention 131, 215, 217, 244 -- Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows

Cast by Stars by Mort Marcus (Los Angeles, CA: Jazz Press, 1981) reviewed by Robert Peters in Kayak no. 24 369

-- founder and editor, 1964, was George Hitchcock 206, 212-213

-- George Hitchcock “modeled Kayak after a lot of Bly’s ideas” 301

-- Robert Bly’s target of criticism 302 Kayak collating party: mention 202,

213 -- Mort met Bert Meyers 564 -- Mort met Raymond Carver at George

Hitchcock’s collating party for Kayak 284

-- Mort met Robin Magowan 412 -- Vasko Popa’s visit was discussed with

Charles Simic at George Hitchcock’s collating part for Kayak 295-296

Kayak Press “Kayak poet” & “Kayak crowd”: mention 219, 286

Kaye, Sammy -- mention 52 Kazantzakis, Eleni (widow of Nikos

Kazantzakis): mention 219 Kazantzakis, Nikos: Freedom or Death:

a novel. (London: Faber and Faber, 1966) 219, 340-341

-- Letter from Greco [questionable title] 340-341

-- Mort & Karen visited his gravesite, which bears inscription: “I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” 347

-- photo: Kazantzakis’ grave 347 -- The Greek passion / translated by

Jonathan Griffin.(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, c1953) 340-341



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-- Zorba the Greek ; translated by Carl Wildman. (New York: Simon and Schuster 1966) 340-341

Kazantzidis, Stelios: touring with Mikis Theodorakis popular Greek composer on his tour of Greece 329

Kearny Street workshop: Jeff Tagami & Shirley Ancheta were both members of this San Francisco program for Asian-Americans 364, 366

Keith, Greg: Life near 310 Kelvin: poems and readings (Berkeley, CA: SLG Books, 1998) 558

-- of Southern Oregon University - introduced to Mort by Lawson Inada as “his best poetry student” 558

-- photo: Santa Cruz, 1998 558 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 511 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Another Note to the Young”

559 Keithley, George: a classmate of Mort’s

at Iowa 368 Kennedy, John F. (President): mention

171-172 -- his assassination had impact on Mort

177-178, 180 Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Nest [New York, Viking Press [1962]] 159-160

Kessler, Stephen: mention 539 -- “Bombs Away” - Kessler’s poetry

reading against nuclear proliferation 478

-- and Mort, gave seed money to the organizer of the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival 478

-- Chapter 46 section on him: 477-479 -- Changing centuries: selected poems of

Fernando Alegría ; translated by Stephen Kessler. (Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1984.) 478

-- Destruction or love: a selection from La destrucción o el amor of Vicente Aleixandre. Translated by Stephen Kessler. (Santa Cruz, CA., Green Horse Press, 1976) 478

-- editor of Bard College’s The Lampeter Muse 477

-- founded The Redwood Coast Review 478

-- founded The Sun newspaper in Santa Cruz after the 1989 Earthquake 478

-- hosted a poetry show on KUSP with Gary Young after the 1989 Earthquake 478

-- Machu Picchu / photographs, Barry Brukoff ; poems, Pablo Neruda ; translation, Stephen Kessler ; prologue, Isabel Allende. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c2001) 478

-- photo: Santa Cruz, 1988 477 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “I Live Just Over There” 478-

479 -- publisher of Alcatraz: an assemblage

(Santa Cruz, Calif.: Alcatraz Editions, 1979) 477

-- Salvo el crepúsculo. (English Title - Save twilight: selected poems of Julio Cortázar / translated by Stephen Kessler) (San Francisco: City Lights Books, c1997) 478

-- settled at Gualala, CA 478 -- Viudas. English Title: Widows / Ariel

Dorfman ; translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler. (New York: Pantheon Books, c1983) 478

-- Written In Water: The Prose Poems Of Luis Cernuda / translated By Stephen Kessler (San Francisco: City Lights Books, c2004) 478

King, Bill: Deng Ming-Dao and Mort met Tom Meschery at Bill’s home in Sausalito for the interview 453-454

Kinidaros: village site of music concert on Naxos 344-346

Kinnell, Galway: in re Cabrillo College poetry series 227

Kizer, Carolyn: editor of Poetry Northwest 193

Kloen, Joan: she was Robert Peterson’s partner, after Dorothy 204

Knossos, Crete: mention 327, 347 Knott, Bill: mention 191 Koch, Kenneth: mention 176 Kolokotronis, Theodore (equestrian

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Kolomaki: Athens suburb where the Griggs had rented a house 328

Konavle Valley: area of Croatia site of Donna Marcus’ grand-parents home, Dalmatian area 15 miles South of Dubrovnik 418-428

-- photo: (Croatia, 1989) 419 -- photo: typical cottage, 1989 421 -- photo: typical vegetation, 2006 426 Kooser, Ted (Koozer) Poet Laureate of

the United States 236 Koran, Dennis: published Lennart

Bruce at Cloud Marauder Press, Berkeley, CA 273

Kornblum, Allan: publisher of Jack Marshall’s work at Coffee House Press 390

Korte, Mary Norbert: in re Cabrillo College poetry series 227-228

Korty, John: he asked Jeanne & Jim to write a screenplay based on their Farewell to Manzanar 260

Kovalchek, Johnny (baseball player for Storm King School) 71

Krausmann, Rudi: Australian poet 494 Krupa, Gene: mention 52 KUSP Radio: mention 396, 478 -- The Poetry Show: Al Young was Mort’s

first guest on poetry show 319 -- The Poetry Show: Mort was host for

weekly radio poetry show on KUSP, Santa Cruz 318

-- The Poetry Show: Joe Stroud interviewed by Mort, 1985 396, 476

Kutusov, Mikhail (Russian Army Field Marshal) 19

Kyser, Kay: mention 52 L Lahr, Bert: mention 52 Lakonia Plain: olive groves and

wildflowers 337 Lamb Skins/Sheep Hides: photo:

drying at Naxos (Easter, 1975) 341 “lamed vovniks”: (Ch. 42-44) 431-456 -- Alvaro “Yaqui” Lopez, a boxer, one of

Mort’s “lamed vovniks” 433 -- Deng Ming-Dao: comes closest to

being a “lamed vovnik” 446

-- George Ow, Jr., one of Mort’s “just beings” 432

-- Jim Schwenterley, a theater operator, one of Mort’s “lamed vovniks” 433

-- Vasili Karagiannopoulos: Greek-American restaurant owner, one of Mort’s “lamed vovniks” 432-433

Lancaster, Burt: mention 52 Larry see Siegel, Laurence “Larry”

(mother’s 4th husband) Laughlin, James: head of New

Directions Press 163 Laughton, Charles: mention 67 -- George Hitchcock was compared to

212 Laux, Dorianne: writer at Squaw Valley

Writers Conference whom Mort knew from Foothill Writers Conference 453-454

Lazard, Naomi: mention 191 Lazotte: Air Force recruit fought with

Mort 85-90 Ledbetter, Huddie William (aka

“Ledbelly”): mention 65 Leary, David E.: Prescriptive Metaphors:

(actual title: Metaphors in the history of psychology) (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 374-375

Leary, Timothy: spoke at last meet of Artists’ Liberation Front 211

LeCarre, John: mention 367-368 Lee, Li-Young: mention 476 Lefty: alias for George Hitchcock in

Western Worker 212 Lehrman, Neil: co-publisher of Dryad

Press 539 Leo see Bebchick, Leo “Cousin Leo” Leonard, Benny (Freddy’s uncle):

mention 50 Leonard, Freddy (Mort’s childhood

friend): mention 50, 53, 55 Leonard, Jack E.: mention 52 Lesbos, Island of: Mort & Karen stayed

there a month 354 Levertov, Denise: mention 564 -- In a dybbuk’s raincoat: collected

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introduction by Denise Levertov (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007) 566

Levin, Harry: touted Stanford University’s conformism 158

Levine, Philip: Fresno State University (college) - his students: Gary Soto, Larry Levis, Lawson Inada 137, 459

-- his poem “Gangrene” 137 -- introduce Adrienne Rich to Mort 556 -- taught at Fresno State with Robert

Mezey 190 Levine, Stephen: group photo (Santa

Cruz, 1972) 227 Levis, Larry: Phil Levine’s student at

Fresno State U. 459 Lewis, Gene: composed score for Mort’s

The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 468

-- died of cancer, 10-years after production of The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 470

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1984) 469 Lezin, Norman (photo credit for p. 164,

259) 583 Li Bo legendary Tang poet (b.701-d.762)

mention 580 Librarian at Rethymnon, Crete: Mort

had rewarding visit with 347 Library of Congress: special tour given

to Joseph Stroud 236 Lick-Wilmerding High School: Jack

Coffey, teacher at Lick-Wilmerding probably told Deng Ming-Dao about Mort’s Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 455

-- Mort got a job teaching English 198 -- Mort left because the principal would

not grant him a pay raise 220 -- photos: Mort at Lick-Wilmerding 199 Lick, James: Mention - Lick-Wilmerding

High School 198 Lieberman, Frederic: co-author w/Leta

Miller of bio of Lou Harrison 441 Lincoln Center, NY: site of Mort’s old

neighborhood 55, 177, 189 Lindy’s Restaurant (Leo & Clara Lindy)

49-50, 54 Linenthal, Mark (of San Francisco State

Univ.): Larry Fixel organized reading

at Prof. Mark Linenthal’s Marin County home 304

Lish, Gordon: editor of Raymond Carver’s What we talk about ... 270

Lobos, Amilcar: Salvadoran poet with Commission Bailes Artes in San Francisco 206-207

Logan, Alice: and John Logan Jr. 197 -- photo credit (for p. 191) 583 Logan, John: mention 150, 228, 459,

539 -- at Marin Writers Conference 194-195 -- Chapter 17 is about Logan 191-197 -- Denny Schmitz was student of John

Logan, mentor of Raymond Carver, located in Sacramento 458

-- died in San Francisco, 1987 197 -- guest editor of Poetry Northwest 193 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 227 -- photo: 1970s 191 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 183 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Three Moves” 192-193 -- taught at San Francisco State; editor

of Choice 191-192 Logue, Christopher: mention 415 Longchamps restaurant, NY: mention

29, 177 Lopez, Alvaro “Yaqui”: a boxer, one of

Mort’s “lamed vovniks” 433 Lorca, Frederico Garcia: mention 149,

300, 331 Lord & Taylor (department store): Mort

was stock-boy 82 Lowell, Robert: mention 126 Ludlow, Robert: mention 280 Lundquist, Robert photo: (group, Santa

Cruz, 1972) 227 Luria-Sukenick, Lynn: poetry reading

at UC Santa Cruz 395 Luschei, Glenna & Martin: mention

303 Lydon, Sandy: and Mort led charge

against proposed increase in class size and cuts in budget 518

-- and Mort Marcus taught a Chinese literature class at Cabrillo College and had Deng Ming-Dao as guest 446

-- Breakfast Club role explained 520



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-- Chinese Gold: the Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region. (Capitola, CA: Capitola Book Co., c1985) 435

-- George Ow, Jr., Donna & Mort, Deng Ming-Dao, & Sandy Lydon went to dinner after talk 447

-- Mort describes Sandy’s lecture style 446

-- photo: Breakfast Club group photo 521

-- was President of Cabrillo College Academic Senate 518

M Mabuhay, Filipino restaurant, San

Francisco: mention 269 MacDonald, Robert & Annie:

leaseholders of cottage in Wales 414 MacDowell Art Colony, New Hamp-

shire (McDowell): Mort spent two months in residence where he finished two writing projects 297, 324-327

Machado, Antonio: mention 300 Macintosh, Graham: printer for Capra

Press, evaluated Mort’s manuscript and discussed his ideas for publication 276

Mackey, Nathaniel “Nate”: photo (Santa Cruz, 2006) 561

-- photo: thumbnail snapshot 511 -- Poems: “Song of The Adomboulou:

48” from Splay Anthem (New York: New Directions Book, 2006) 562-563

-- Splay Anthem (New York: New Directions Book, 2006) 562-563

-- UC Santa Cruz professor, editor Hambone magazine, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets 561

MacLeish, Archibald see McLeish, Archibald

Madison Square Garden: mention 30, 58, 63, 143, 180

Magic Walking Stick: photo: 348-349 -- with head of goat with leg of a woman

348 Magowan, Robert: Robin’s father,

Robert Magowan, ran Safeway grocery stores 412

-- with Robin: Nancy Ling Perry had targeted Robert & Robin Magowan as kidnap victims of the Symbionese Liberation Army 413

Magowan, Robin: had a love affair with Nancy Ling Perry, founder of the Symbionese Liberation Army 413

-- his father, Robert Magowan, ran Safeway 412

-- his uncle, “Uncle Jimmy”: mention 412


-- Mort visited him and house-sat his London, England, mansion 412


-- photo: Connecticut, 2007 412 -- Poem Permissions 586 -- Poems: “Eye in the Wind” 413-414 -- Robin and his wife, Juliet, attended

Valerie Marcus’ wedding in the Berkshires 413

Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi: mention 164 Mailer, Norman: “The Talent in the

Room” 142-143 -- Advertisements for Myself (New York:

Putnam, 1959) 142-143 -- The Naked and the Dead (New York:

Rinehart, 1948) 142-143 Malanga, Gerard: photo credits 583 Mankell, Henning: mention 367 Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks: the

decline of a family (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993) 65

-- The Magic Mountain: a novel (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1995) 65

Manson, Charles: mention 220 Manzanar Internment Camp: Jeanne

Wakatsuki Houston’s nephew called her about Manzanar, but she had trouble talking about this suppressed episode in her life 259-260

Marcus family: “legend of the Marcus family” 487

-- Wilma, Jana, Valerie, and Mort: arriv-ed (Santa Cruz County, 1968) 224

Marcus, Adrianne (Adrienne) -- a poet, commiserated with Wilma after Mort



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read his “Toward Certain Divorce” at the Marin Writers’ Conference 307

Marcus, Donna see Mekis, Donna Marcus, Donna & Mort -- accommodated Robert Bly at their

home before his Cabrillo reading 311 -- Croatia destination for seven trips

since 1989 - ancestral home of Donna’s relatives 417-428

-- explore Prague, best walking city 550 -- Lisa Jensen and husband, Jim

Aschbacher, accompanied the McDougals & Marcuses to Bern, Switzerland, in 2005 for the opening of the Paul Klee Museum 417

-- photo: France, 2005 417 -- photo: group (New York, 2007) 567 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1980 373 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1999 416 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot iii , 357 -- photo: wedding day, 1986 375 -- photo: with Morton & grandson,

Zachary Marcus Ramshur 525 -- planted “Lou Harrison Laurel” 438 -- were impressed with Patricia Hampl

and they went to dinner several occasions at famous cafés 550

Marcus, Jana: mention 158, 198 -- and Mort had reconciliation

discussion 380 -- at Point Arena 168 -- became a dresser & theater mgr. for

Cabrillo Music Festival 360 -- became a photographer of

documentary films 360 -- born in Palo Alto during Mort’s year

at Stanford 162 -- Brezhnev Memo advance from


-- found a Marcus relative on the internet 486

-- her first book was a volume of photographs and interviews with Anne Rice’s friends: In the shadow of the vampire: reflections from the world of Anne Rice (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, c1997) 389, 525

-- liked image of William Marcus, Mort’s grandfather 488

-- “Midnight in Manhattan” - a photo essay Jana assembled as a freelance photographer in New York 524-525

-- Mort felt guilty for his extra-marital affair, especially putting Jana and Valerie through the 2-yr. suffering 264-265

-- Mort’s relationship with Jana changed because she became an adult and had her own life 524

-- named for Jana, the daughter of Max Dresden 155

-- photo credits 583 -- photo: brother and sisters, Santa

Cruz, 2003 524 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 405 -- played Franz Liszt’s piano 409-410 -- taken care of by Wilma & Mort 175 -- Transfigurations is the title of her

thesis in Photography for her Master’s of Fine Arts at San Jose State U. 525

-- was official photographer & marketing director for Cabrillo Stage 526

Marcus, Jana & Valerie: photo: Germany, 1979 409

-- photo: Italy, 1979 410 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1988 360 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot iii -- played with the two Rice children 388 -- they were happy to have a brother

377 -- traveled with Mort to Hearst Castle

via Big Sur 360 -- traveled with Mort to Santa Barbara

360 -- What kind of father could Mort be?

484 -- with Mort toured together 408 Marcus, Max: Mort’s father - mention

485-486 -- described by Stanley Rothstein as a

compulsive gambler 487 -- Frank Erickson, a NY bookie, visited

Max often 487 -- he was a five-time loser and went to

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-- Mort’s father - Mort saw twice, for little more than 30 minutes 483

-- spent 3-years in NY Penitentary at Dannemora on tax evasion 487

Marcus, Morton “Mort”: About the Author 589

-- “Art is for the edification of the entire community” 512

-- “I came to see Santa Cruz as home.” 358

-- “Ironically, more people in Santa Cruz County know me as a film critic than as a poet” 476

-- “It Begins Right Here” is about Mort’s family migration from Russia to the U.S. 369

-- “Prague has become the ideal city of my adulthood” 548

-- “The Eight Ecstacies of Yaeko Iwasaki: A Legend in Poetry, Dance & Music” 440

-- “The Mystic Twang” was Codrescu’s lengthy review of Mort Marcus’ first three books, including Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 400

-- his “Great Awakening” was reading literature & music 64-65

-- & Donna: George Ow, Jr., Donna & Mort heard Ming-Dao Deng speak 447

-- & Donna: George Ow, Jr., Donna & Mort, Deng Ming-Dao, & Sandy Lydon went to dinner after talk 447

-- & Donna: met Deng’s family 452 -- & Donna: visited Kirby & Anita in

Watsonville 484 -- & Donna: visited Prague in 2002 548 -- & Donna: went to dinner 515 -- & Jana & Valerie: called Stanley

Rothstein about Mort’s father, Max Marcus 486

-- & Jana & Valerie: in Venice they found the deserted Jewish section 410

-- & Jana & Valerie: Mort, Jana & Valerie drove to meet Ed & Inge Bowers to tour Bavaria with Bill Grant 409

-- & Jana & Valerie: visited Assisi several days, at Jana’s insistance 410

-- & Jana & Valerie: visited Chiemsee & Schloss Linderhof, Germany 410

-- & Wilma: had read Tillie Olsen’s Tell me a Riddle before he met her in San Francisco 205-206

-- & Wilma: had to hitch a ride home after the Marin Writers’ Conference, because Bly disappeared 307

-- & Wilma: the episode in Marin, with Mort reading the “Divorce” poem, was the last attempt they made at reconciliation of their marriage 309

-- & Wilma: went to James D. Hall’s party at his Provost’s House, UCSC 303

-- accepted George Hitchcock’s invitation to publish poems in Kayak that he had previously written for Donald Justice 217

-- adopted by step-father Laurence “Larry” Siegel 38

-- after Lennart Bruce died, Leonard Gardner organized a Memorial at which Luis Garcia and Mort read 274

-- Air Force experience 96 -- analyzes Al Young’s writing 315-319 -- analyzes Bly’s work, ultimately (p.

312) calls Bly “a bully” 310-312 -- analyzes Jack Marshall’s poetry 391-

392 -- analyzes Joseph Stroud poetry style

228-236 -- analyzes Lou Harrison’s music 443 -- and Allen Ginsberg read at Kuumbwa

Jazz Center, Santa Cruz 478 -- and Donna: visited Mlini where they

had rented a house 424 -- and Donna: visited Mostar &

Medjugorje 424 -- and Jana had reconciliation

discussion 380 -- and Joe Stroud organized a day long

benefit for Santa Cruz bookshops, called “The Great Santa Cruz Word Quake Benefit” 473

-- and Kirby Wilkins friendship became strained over Dept. & Union positions at Cabrillo College 485



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-- and Mort and Stephen Kessler gave seed money to the organizer of the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival 478

-- and Mort’s step-son Nick, had compatibility problems 377

-- and Mort’s step-son Nick, reconciled in Croatia in 2005 378-380

-- and William Everson had same birthday: April, 1937 382

-- and William Everson, and George Hitchcock, sat in front row at First Congregational Church to hear Robert Bly 382

-- and Wilma: tried family counseling with therapist 264

-- Andrei Codrescu “is the mask behind the mask” according to Mort 399

-- Anita Wilkins, Joe Stroud & Mort: three-week tour of Australia’s East coast for a poetry reading 489

-- Anita Wilkins, Joe Stroud & Mort Marcus were in Australia, March, 1989 495

-- Anne & Stan Rice, Mort & Wilma visited 388

-- another petition urged Mort to return next year 173

-- arrived in San Francisco in 1964, taught history & English at a yeshiva 184

-- asked Deng to become his literary executor 452

-- assigned as journalist to Air Training Magazine 109

-- attempted to visit Popa in Belgrade, but Popa was on the Dalmatian Coast convalescing with broken leg; Mort and Donna had just been there but didn’t know Popa was there 254-255

-- awarded “1999 Santa Cruz Artist of the Year” 438

-- awarded “2007 Gail Rich Award” 569 -- became a film historian 474 -- became his mother’s conservator 530-

531 -- began his writing at Irving School 65 -- Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows

Cast by Stars reviewed by Robert Peters in Kayak no. 24 369

-- Brezhnev Memo advance from Dell/Delacorte paid for Mort, Jana & Valerie to travel to Europe, summer 1980 369

-- Cabrillo College granted a sabbatical to Mort for 1975 324

-- co-hosted a regular program, “Cinema Scene” on Santa Cruz Community Television 560

-- contemplated suicide over loss of girlfriend 64

-- delivered greetings to Manos Hajidakis, the Greek Minister of Culture from Valaoritis 330-331

-- delivered the commencement address for the Santa Cruz High School at Cabrillo College Stadium, 1999, which the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper published 560, 574-579

-- describes Sandy Lydon’s lecture style 446

-- did not reveal his extra-marital affair to daughters Jana & Valerie 262

-- Don Ellis of Creative Arts Book Company asked Mort to publish a book of poetry, but Mort could only pull together 48 poems 555

-- elected Editor of Blair Academy’s literary magazine 81

-- Elegy for Kenneth Patchen included in Where the Oceans Cover Us 276

-- Eva & George Hitchcock, Mort and Wilma had dinner in San Francisco to celebrate the arrival of Mort’s Origins, published by George’s Kayak Press, 1968 241

-- felt remorse for killing rabbit with .22-caliber rifle 38-39

-- flunked out of high school 81 -- George Hitchcock was a father-figure

to Mort 215 -- George Ow and others have a

Breakfast Club 435-436 -- Gina Berriault urged Mort to write his

memoirs 271 -- got a contract to teach in the Cabrillo

College English Department 221 -- Greg Keith of Southern Oregon

University - introduced to Mort by



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Lawson Inada as “his best poetry student” 558

-- had a semi-monthly discussion group at the Nickelodeon Theater in Santa Cruz 560

-- had a verbal battle with Robert Mezey at Hall’s party at UCSC 304

-- had subscribed to Yugoslavia Today five years before he had met Donna - influenced by friendship with Charles Simic and Vasko Popa 418

-- has an unpublished novel of intrigue 411

-- he and Karen went to Peloponnese train station to travel to Mycenae 332-333

-- he was homesick for California, not for NY 177

-- his analysis of his own life & his hopes for the future 571

-- his approach to writing: “heightened consciousness” 131

-- his mantra: “What we do, we do for everyone” 89

-- his philosophy of writing poetry was formed at the Iowa writing program 128

-- his poems appeared in 80 anthologies by end of the 1990s in Australia, Europe, and the U.S. 555

-- his Point Arena 5th graders became anti-war 171

-- his Santa Cruz Mountain Poems compared to Origins 226

-- In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: collected poems by Bert Meyers ; edited by Morton Marcus and Daniel Meyers ; foreword by Morton Marcus ; introduction by Denise Levertov (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007) 566

-- in June 1989, Mort observed and predicted war among Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians 423

-- in re al Young: “Al is truly a man of belles lettres” 318

-- in regard to the Robert Bly chapter in this book (#30) Jack Marshall advised Mort to “forget it” 390

-- interviewed Al Young for local weekly Metro and it became a mini-biography: Seduction by Light was a focus 319

-- invited George Hitchcock to Cabrillo College to read 226

-- invited to read at Marin Writers’ Conference at Marin College 306

-- invited to read at Providence College, Rhode Island 537-538

-- Jack Coffey, teacher at Lick-Wilmerding probably told Deng Ming-Dao about Mort’s Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 455

-- Joe Stroud and Mort reconciled 389 -- Joe Stroud took Stan Rice & Mort on

a hike in The Forest of Nicene Marks State Park, above Aptos, CA 388

-- Joseph “Joe” Stroud brought Mort & Kirby back together 485

-- Larry Fixel urged a reconciliation between Jack Marshall and Mort 393

-- launched a three-year intensive study of Chinese civilation 148

-- learned art of impersonation 20 -- left Lick-Wilmerding High School

because the principal would not grant him a pay raise 220

-- Lick-Wilmerding teaching was intellectually exultant 200

-- love of movies began 30 -- marched as veteran against the

Vietnam war in anti-war march in Oakland 220

-- married to Wilma Kantrowich (a dancer) 122, 129


-- member, Steering Committee, Pacific Rim Film Festival 521

-- met Charles Simic at George’s collating party for Kayak 295

-- met George Hitchcock in San Francisco 189

-- met Odysseus Elytis for coffee at Zonar’s, a fancy restaurant on Amelia Ave., Athens 331

-- Moments without names: new & selected prose poems (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2002) 318, 547



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-- Mort & family returned to California from NY 180

-- Mort aided in the purchase of the Del Mar Theater, Santa Cruz 520

-- Mort analyzed Charles Simic’s poetry 298

-- Mort contrasts Wilma to the “blonde, slim, California beach girl” 264

-- Mort described Jack Gilbert as “a realist more than a romantic” 396

-- Mort discusses his marriage to Wilma and love 263

-- Mort felt guilty for his extra-marital affair, especially putting Jana and Valerie through the two-years’ of suffering 264-265

-- Mort found lodging with Jan & Nan Brown for Donna Mekis 262

-- Mort met Andrei Codrescu outside City Lights Bookshop in SF, 1972 397

-- Mort met Raymond Carver at George Hitchcock’s collating party for Kayak 284

-- Mort spent two months in residence where he finished two writing projects at MacDowell Art Colony, New Hampshire 324-326

-- Mort stopped at Southern Oregon University (Ashland) for readings given by Lawson Inada & teach classes 477

-- Mort succeeded Nancy Andreasen as President of the Cabrillo Teachers’ Union 519

-- Mort taught a UC Extension course at which he had Raymond Carver and William Everson as guests 382

-- Mort taught Deng Ming-Dao “everything I knew” concerning the art of poetry 450, 452

-- Mort thanked Donald Justice for questioning poem 514

-- Mort was a faculty member at Foothill Writers Conference 476

-- Mort, Anita Wilkins & Joe Stroud were met at Sydney by hosts Bill “Billy” Marshall-Stoneking & Nigel Roberts 494-495

-- Mort, Donna, Imant Raminsh, Cheryl & John Anderson became good friends 568

-- Mort, Kirby Wilkins & Joseph “Joe” Stroud were buddies 479, 481-482

-- Mort’s father, Max Marcus, Mort saw twice, for little more than 30 minutes 483

-- Mort’s favorite writers cited in portion of interview by Bloomsbury Review quoted: Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536

-- Mort’s narrative on the Prose Poem form 533

-- Mort’s parents: mention 372 -- Mort’s relationship with Jana

changed because she became an adult and had her own life 524

-- mourning for loss of girlfriend at an end 73

-- named “Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year, 1999” 560

-- near-death experience made him realize that death is nothingness 71

-- offered a job as a strike breaker 167-168

-- organized religion, of all kinds, held no appeal to Mort 73

-- origin of him “becoming a writer” 20 -- Origins published by Kayak Press in

1968 219, 241, 535 -- Origins referred to in association with

meeting Raymond Carver 313-319 -- Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants

(Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988) 369-370, 533, 535, 547

-- Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants based on Rutsala’s approach to his Idaho poems 546

-- Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants; a journey in poems - its “Mother Poems” mention 476, 529

-- philosophy: “commit no act that would hurt others or damage [his] self-respect” 34

-- photo: Air Force, 1956 94 -- photo: At 7-years old, somewhere on

the east coast, 1943 4



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-- photo: At Lick-Wilmerding, San Francisco, 1967 199

-- photo: at the Vltava River at Charles Bridge, 2006 554

-- photo: basketball shooter, Pennsylvania, 1950 63

-- photo: Blair yearbook, New Jersey, 1954 80


-- photo: Eloquent answer ... Lick-Wilmerding, 1966 199

-- photo: Foothill Writers Conference, Los Altos, 1993 261

-- photo: group photo, New York, 2007 567

-- photo: group photo, Santa Cruz mountains, 2007 486

-- photo: group photo, Santa Cruz, 1972 227

-- photo: group photo, Santa Cruz, 1984 469

-- photo: in costume as Boltar, Santa Cruz, 1969 241

-- photo: in the library 580 -- photo: New York, 1936 14 -- photo: New York, 1942 19 -- photo: Outward Bound xiii -- photo: photo credits 583 -- photo: Poem Permissions 586-587 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1974, in 1970s

garb 226 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot iii, 3 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot (Air

Force, 1956) 83 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot

(basketball shooter) 45 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot (New

Jersey, 1954) 45 -- photo: Tor House (Carmel, 2004) 203 -- photo: wedding day (Santa Cruz,

1986) 376 -- photo: with Anderson & Trapp (New

York, 2007) 568 -- photo: with Carol Bebchick “Cousin

Carol” (thumbnail) 3 -- photo: with Carol Bebchick “Cousin

Carol” (NY, 1937) 21 -- photo: with Donna Mekis - photo

credits 583

-- photo: with Donna Mekis (Mostar, Bosnia, 1989) 425

-- photo: with Donna Mekis (thumbnail snapshot) ii

-- photo: with Gary Young (Library, San Francisco, 2003) 544

-- photo: with Jana Marcus (Point Arena, 1963) 170

-- photo: with Jana Marcus (thumbnail snapshot) 157

-- photo: with Joe Stroud (Santa Cruz, 1993) 561

-- photo: with Leo Bebchick “Cousin Leo” (Brooklyn, 1946) 26

-- photo: with Nick Galli (Hollister, 2002) 378

-- photo: with Nick Galli (thumbnail snapshot) iii

-- photo: with Rachel “Rae” Bebchick/Babjic (Hudson Sch., 1943) 18

-- photo: with Rachel “Rae” Bebchick/Babjic (Monterey, CA 1998) 528

-- photo: with Raminsh at Carnegie Hall, New York, 2007 569

-- picked Vasko Popa up at SF International Airport 245

-- poem composed as he was “Listening to Lou Harrison’s Suite for Violin & American Gamelan Shortly after the Composer’s Death” 445

-- poems appeared in A curious architecture: a selection of contemporary prose poems (Exeter, Devon: Stride, 1996) 537

-- Poems: “Dance” is set to Lou Harrison’s “4th Movement of Varied Trio” 442

-- Poems: “Fire” part of prose-poem 500

-- Poems: “Goodbye to the Twentieth Century” 572-574

-- Poems: “Looking for Vasko Popa” 255-257

-- Poems: “Majke Jevrosime #3” (lines from) 422

-- Poems: “Marooned” 490-493 -- Poems: “Men Who Cry” 435



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-- Poems: “Moon and Flower” (partial) 428

-- Poems: “My Daughters, Grown” 526-528

-- Poems: “My Father’s Hobby” 539 -- Poems: “Once I Woke” 353 -- Poems: “Quartet in a Minor Key” -

Mort’s verse poem sent to Lou Harrison 441

-- Poems: “Smoking Cigars” 179-180 -- Poems: “The Library” 574, 580-581 -- Poems: “Toward Certain Divorce” 264 -- Poems: “Two Roads” 262-263 -- Poems: verses from The Eight

Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 471 -- Point Arena neighbor was a member

of the John Birch Society 170 -- Point Arena was most emotionally

rewarding teaching experience 200 -- portion of interview by Bloomsbury

Review quoted 536 -- Polish Post-War Poetry by Czeslaw

Milosz (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965) - Mort recommended it to the audience at UC Berkeley poetry reading 238

-- Pursuing the dream bone (Florence, Mass.: Quale Press, c2007) 547, 569

-- Rachel and Mort’s relationship analyzed 82

-- Rachel had urged that Mort should travel to Europe to learn more about other cultures 324

-- Racing Cloud was berated by Thomas Sanchez, which led to Mort challenging Sanchez physically 305

-- Ray González conducted interview of Mort for The Bloomsbury Review 541

-- Ray González published journal Luna and Mort’s prose poems 541

-- Raymond Carver dedicated his book to Mort: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 283

-- read at San Francisco Public Library with Robert Peterson and Clemens Starck 210

-- read at UC Berkeley with Milosz and Popa 252-253

-- read his poems with Donald Justice, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan 191-192

-- reading tours of the Pacific Northwest, OR & WA 476

-- realized that his sports “career” was at an end 112-137

-- recalled how insulting Rachel had been to Wilma and Donna 529

-- received his high-school diploma 113 -- retired from teaching at Cabrillo

College, 1998 560 -- revered Daodejing 77-78 -- Richard Martin read Mort’s article on

poetry in Metro 514 -- Robert Alexander’s anthology The

Party Train included a discussion of Mort’s The Armies Encamped in the Fields Beyond the Unfinished Avenues 547

-- Robert Bly rejected Mort’s poems for The Fifties 301

-- Sandy Lydon and Mort taught a Chinese literature class at Cabrillo College and had Deng Ming-Dao as guest 446

-- Santa Cruz Mountain Poems (poems by Morton Marcus ; drawings by Gary H. Brown. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Capra Press, 1972) 447-448, 455, 515

-- Santa Cruz Mountain Poems was reviewed by Andrei Codrescu in his lengthy “The Mystic Twang,” a review of Mort Marcus’ first three books 400

-- saw Rogier Van der Weyden’s painting “Saint Luke Draws a Picture of the Virgin” in Munich and Bruges, with the “original” at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, etc. 411

-- senior honors thesis was based on Dostoevsky’s last four novels, using Notes from the Underground as the core of the thesis 150

-- several poems selected for publication in The Young American Poets anthology 220

-- Shouting down the silence: verse poems, 1988-2001 (Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Co., c2000) 555

-- Simic invited Mort to be the West Coast host for Popa while on tour of U. S. 244



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-- spoke to Cabrillo Board of Trustees regarding allocation of wind-fall money 519

-- Sports was important part of his life 58-59

-- Stanford University’s writing program was disappointment: of 25 Wilson scholars at Stanford, 23 quit 158

-- stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base, NY 97

-- station Orlando Air Force Base 101 -- station at Scott Air Force Base, IL 91 -- stationed in Air Force @ Sampson AF

Base, NY 84 -- studied film at UCSC 475 -- studied Spanish 149-150, 154 -- suggested to William Everson that he

go to see a doctor 383 -- talk given to Australian Film TV &

Radio School 489, 495 -- talk given to National Theatre Drama

School 489, 495 -- taught “Writers Off the Page” for

University of California Extension 287 -- taught a Film History Class at

Cabrillo College, Fall 1983 474 -- The Armies Encamped in the Fields

Beyond the Unfinished Avenues. Drawings by Futzie Nutzle. (Santa Cruz, CA., Jazz Prod., 1977) 533

-- The Brezhnev Memo: a novel by Mort Marcus 368, 411

-- The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki quoted viii, 464-467, 474, 512, 568

-- the only important necessity was to pursue the act of writing 123

-- The Peace of Wild Things by Imant Raminsh is the song cycle for large chorus and full orchestra that included Mort’s poetry, performed in May 2006 and taken to Carnegie Hall 19 Jun 2007 and the East Coast in 2008 567

-- to prep for travel Mort reviewed Greece and the Great Powers by Steven George Xydis [used as Steven X. Xydis] (Greece and the Great Powers, 1944-1947; prelude to the "Truman doctrine." Thessaloniki,

Institute for Balkan Studies, 1963) (aka Stephanos G. Xydes) 325

-- took a teaching job at Point Arena Elementary School 168

-- took his mother, Rachel, to Europe in 1984 411

-- took Jeff Tagami to dinner with Leonard Gardner, Gina Berriault, and Clancy Carlile 365

-- took the manuscript for Santa Cruz Mountain Poems to Capra Press in Santa Barbara 275-258

-- turned writing toward poetry 65-66 -- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

invited Mort to read and conduct workshops for graduate students 318

-- used George Hitchcock’s theme of “heightened consciousness” 226

-- Vasko Popa’s technique of sequencing poems used by Mort 226


-- visited with Michael McClure in London 414-415

-- Wars: “The Cold War”: influence 134 -- was head of the Teachers’ Union at

Cabrillo College 484 -- was host for weekly radio poetry show

on KUSP, Santa Cruz 318 -- was interviewed by Bloomsbury

Review 533-534 -- watched Muhammad Ali boxing

matches with Leonard Gardner and Joe Stroud 269

-- When People Could Fly (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Hanging Loose Press, c1997) 318, 522, 547

-- with the help of Jim Houston, Mort got an interview for a teaching job at Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 220

-- with the help of Jim Houston, Mort got his MA at Stanford 220

-- witnessed a racial incident with policeman & black man in a taxi dispute 180-182

-- won Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 154 -- won Blair Academy’s literary award

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-- wrote a review of Adrienne Rich’s work for the weekly Metro when her An Atlas of the difficult world: poems, 1988-1991 (New York, W. W. Norton, 1991) appeared 557

-- wrote article for the Journal of English Teaching Techniques 512-514

-- wrote article for The Prose Poem: An International Journal 534

-- wrote essay review of Larry Fixel’s Truth, War, and the Dream-Game for the weekly Metro 533

-- wrote for the Metro newspapers 476 -- yeshiva’s financial problems impacted

Mort and his family 186-189 Marcus, Pincus Max & Rachel “Rae”

Bebchick/Babjic 14 -- divorced Rachel Bebchick, 1944 29 -- married Rachel Bebchick, 1935, her

second marriage of five 14 -- Mort was hurt & angered over his

absence 43 -- testified for Rachel in Divorce from

Laurence “Larry” Siegel 43 Marcus, Rachel “Rae”

Bebchick/Babjic -- photo: New York, early 1940s 11 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot ii, 3 Marcus, Valerie: became an actress 360 -- born in April, 1968 220 -- Brezhnev Memo advance from


-- graduated from Bennington College’s Tisch School of the Arts in Costume Design with a Master’s of Fine Arts 526

-- her sandals melted at motel room in Morro Bay 361

-- married Steve Ramshur 526 -- Mort felt guilty for his extra-marital

affair, especially putting Jana and Valerie through the two-years’ suffering 264-265

-- Mort picked her up at high school 373

-- photo credits 584 -- photo: brother and sisters, Santa

Cruz, 2003 524

-- photo: thumbnail snapshot 405 -- Robin Magowan and his wife, Juliet,

attended Valerie’s wedding in the Berkshires 413

-- was costume designer for Tuesdays with Morrie 526

Marcus, Walter: Max’s son by his 1st marriage, was Mort’s half-brother 488

Marcus, William: Jana Marcus liked image of William Marcus, Mort’s grandfather 488

Marcus, Wilma : mention 109, 135-136, 140-141, 175, 221 - see also Kantrowich, Wilma

-- and Mort: divorced in 1971 261 -- and Mort went to California w/Wilma

pregnant w/Jana 155 -- Anne & Stan Rice, Mort & Wilma

visited 388 -- became a faculty member in drama at

Cabrillo 359 -- became a fixture in Santa Cruz

theatre groups 359 -- Cabrillo College reading with Charles

Simic was at a time when she and Mort were breaking up 295

-- Eva & George Hitchcock, Mort and Wilma had dinner in San Francisco to celebrate the arrival of Mort’s Origins, published by George’s Kayak Press, 1968 241

-- got a job at The Emporium, San Francisco: Mort stayed home with Jana 189

-- had talked with Mort about poetry & dance 465

-- her alma mater was Bennington College 360

-- Kathleen “Kathy” Fraser and Wilma were good friends 390

-- Mort discusses his marriage and love 263

-- Mort recalled how insulting Rachel had been to Wilma and Donna 529

-- Mort revealed his breakup with Wilma in a poem that he read, “Toward Certain Divorce,” at the Marin Writers’ Conference, which led to an embarrassing situation for both of them 306-307



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-- saw Donald Justice on a San Francisco street 189

-- she and Mort were breaking up 269 -- she was in childbirth labor with Jana

161 -- she worked with Alice Thomas at

Stanford 162-163 -- talked about her artistic life 144-145 -- taught dance at YWCA in San

Francisco 184 -- UCSC’s College 5 (James B. Hall,

Provost) hired her as a dance instructor 307

-- Wilma was comforted by Joe Stroud, who also wept after Mort read his “Toward Certain Divorce” 306

Marcus, Wilma & Jana & Valerie: mention 515

-- played together with Popa 246 Marcus, Wilma & Mort: separated;

Wilma took Jana & Valerie to her parents in Florida for Christmas holidays 275

Marin Writers’ Conference: John Logan was one of the featured poets 194

-- Mort Marcus was invited to read at Marin Writers’ Conference at Marin College 306

Marks, S. J.: founded American Poetry Review & December magazine in Chicago 129-130

Marriages: Donna Mekis and Mort Marcus were married, 1986 375-376

-- married to Wilma Kantrowich (a dancer) 122, 129

Marshall-Stoneking, Billy “Bill”: his play about Ezra Pound was Sixteen Words for Water 510

-- showed two films on “Nosepeg” at Pacific Rim Film Festival 509-510

-- was on faculty of Australian National Film School 510

Marshall-Stoneking, Billy “Bill” & Nigel Roberts: handled arrangement in Australia for the California-Southwest tour 498-499

-- Mort, Anita Wilkins & Joe Stroud were met at Sydney by hosts Billy “Bill” Marshall-Stoneking & Nigel Roberts 494-495

Marshall, Jack: mention 400, 540 -- “The Big Brass Handbook” is a long-

running diatribe against the policies of President George W. Bush 393

-- appeared in The Young American Poets. Introduction by James Dickey. (Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1968) 390

-- Chapter 39 section on him 390-393 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 227 -- in regard to the Robert Bly chapter of

his book (#30) Jack advised Mort to “forget it” 390

-- Larry Fixel urged reconciliation between Jack and Mort 393

-- married Kathleen “Kathy” Fraser 390 -- Mort analyzed Jack’s poetry 390-393 -- participated in collating party of

Kayak 214 -- photo: San Francisco, 2002 390 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “Chaos Comics” - Mort quoted

part of his introduction to Jack’s long poem 390-391

-- Poems: “Green” 391-392 -- poetry reading at Berkeley 237 -- quoted in Peter Johnson intro 537 -- wife Naomi Marshall: mention 540 Martin, Richard: mention 116, 521 -- of Irving School - mention 484 -- read Mort’s article on poetry in Metro

514 -- Mort’s dorm master at Irving School

64, 67-68 Martin, Richard & Penelope: mention

66, 519, 521 -- were in Santa Cruz 514-517 Marx, Chico: mention 52 Matala beach, Crete: mention 347 Mathews, Lou: group photo (Santa

Cruz, 1972) 227 Maurois, André: biography of George

Sand 113 Mazzaro, Jerome: reviewed Mort’s

books in Cream City Review 194 McCarry, Charles: mention 367 McCarthy, Joseph (Senator) & Army

hearings: Mort saw on TV 81 McClure, Michael: mention 210



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-- Mort visited with him in London 414-415

McClurg, Bob: photo credit (for p. 268) 584

McDermott, Vincent (composer, gamalan expert): Lou Harrison suggested that Vincent and Alan Hovhannes play together at Lewis & Clark College 441

McDonald, Dwight: mention 142 McDonald, Ross: mention 367 McDougal, Bruce & Marcia: contributed

200 tea bowls for Mort’s The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 467

-- Donna & Mort visited with them at their home in Burgundy 416-417

-- Lisa Jensen and husband, Jim Aschbacher, accompanied the McDougals & Marcuses to Bern, Switzerland, in 2005 for the opening of the Paul Klee Museum 417

-- operated Swanton pottery school 228 -- related to Noel Young 277 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1999 416 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 405 McDowell artists’ colony see

MacDowell Art Colony McFerrin, Bobby: “Don’t Worry, Be

Happy” mention 490-491 McGuire, David: photo credit (for p.

414) 584 McLeish, Archibald: mention (used as

MacLeish) 571 -- Joseph Stroud saw Hemingway letter

from McLeish about Ezra Pound 236 Meehan, Maude: mention 561 Mekis, Andy: Donna Mekis’ father 420 Mekis, Donna see also Marcus, Donna

& Mort -- mention 295, 438, 458 -- accompanied Mort on trip to England,

with Brad Smith & Jenny 416 -- and Mort spent 3-weeks at Bellagio,

Lake Como, Italy 416 -- and Mort traveled to France 416 -- attempted to visit Popa in Belgrade,

but Popa was on the Dalmatian Coast convalescing with broken leg; Mort

and Donna had just been there but didn’t know Popa was there 254-255

-- author of forthcoming book on the history of Croatians in Watsonville 377, 435

-- broke off her relationship with Mort 373

-- Gina Berriault & Leonard Gardner consulted with Mort about Donna 271

-- had a different perspective on Max Marcus, Mort’s father 488

-- had lunch with Mort: parted cool: her marriage ended 374

-- her father is a Croat-American 418 -- is third-generation Santa Cruzan of

Croatian family of Watsonville 373 -- met George Nazar in Fresno 458,

460-463 -- Mort found lodging with Jan & Nan

Brown for Donna 262 -- Mort recalled how insulting Rachel

had been to Wilma and Donna 529 -- Mort took her to Croatia & Greece,

1989 355 -- Mort, Donna, Imant, Cheryl & John

became good friends 568 -- Mort’s student: he invited her to

dinner 372 -- Photo Credits 583-584 -- Photo: Mekis ancestral home 423 -- researched retirement homes for

Rachel 529 -- said about Adrienne Rich’s sending 3

jars of olives and a note: “That’s classy” 558

-- worked at UCSC, then Cabrillo - helping transfer students 377

Melting Trees published by Mike Catalano 539

Melville, Herman: mention 580 -- Lawrence “Larry” Fixel compared to


-- Moby Dick quoted viii Mercado, Fernando: mention 200 Merman, Ethel 49 Merrill, Charles of Merrill-Lynch 412 Merrill, James (the poet): mention 412 Merritt, A. E.: mention 158 Merton, Thomas: died in Thailand 239



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Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley): The Miner’s Pale Children (New York, Atheneum, 1970) 533


Meschery, Joanne: writer at Squaw Valley Writers Conference 453

Meschery, Tom: mention 539 -- All-American pro-basketball player

was subject of an interview for Deng, suggested by Mort 452

-- Deng Ming-Dao and Mort met Tom at Bill King’s home in Sausalito for the interview 454

-- Nothing We Lose Can Be Replaced: poems (Reno: Black Rock Press, University of Nevada, Reno, 1999) 454

-- photo: Reno, 2000 452 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 431 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “Suicide” 454 Meteora, Crete: mention 354 Metro: Mort interviewed Al Young for

local weekly Metro and it became a mini-biography: Seduction by Light was a focus 319

-- Mort wrote series of Metro articles on poets & writers 476, 533, 557

-- Richard Martin read Mort’s article on poetry in Metro 514

Meyers, Anat: daughter of Odette & Bert Meyers - mention 566

Meyers, Bert: In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: collected poems by Bert Meyers; edited by Morton Marcus & Daniel Meyers; foreword by Morton Marcus ; introduction by Denise Levertov (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007) 563, 566


-- photo: Los Angeles, 1978 [caption uses “Myers”] 564

-- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “Daybreak” 565 -- Poems: “Sunflowers” 565 -- Poems: “The Old” 564 -- Poems: selections: “The Old”,

“Sunflowers”, and “Daybreak” 564-565

Meyers, Daniel (son of Bert & Odette Meyers): mention 563, 566

-- In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: collected poems by Bert Meyers ; edited by Morton Marcus and Daniel Meyers ; foreword by Morton Marcus ; introduction by Denise Levertov (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007) 566

-- photo credit (for p. 564) 584 Meyers, Odette: Bert’s wife’s devotion

after his death in 1979, she died in 2001 564- 566

Mezey, Robert -- mention 127-128, 130-131, 155

-- Mezey and Bly gave a reading at UCSC, 1970 302-305

-- Mort had a verbal battle with Mezey at James B. Hall’s party at UCSC 304

-- taught at Fresno State with Philip Levine 190

-- wore armband as if Fresno State Univ. wronged him 303

Michaux, Henri: Lawrence “Larry” Fixel compared to Kafka, Borges, Italo Calvino, Henri Michaux, Herman Melville 534

-- Selected Writings: The Space Within by Henri Michaux. Translated with an introduction by Richard Ellman. (New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1968) 533

Michiko (Jack Gilbert’s second wife) see Gilbert, Jack

Mike (Rachel’s boy-friend): took Mort & Rachel on road trip 81-82, 94

Milford Military Academy 69-70, 87 Millar, Joseph “Joe”: poet and husband

of Dorianne Laux 453 Millennium Concert of All Santa Cruz

Artists of Years Past, 2000 442 Miller, Glenn: mention 52 Miller, Henry: mention 277 Miller, Leta: co-author w/Fredric

Lieberman of biography of Lou Harrison 441

Millet, John: Australian poet 494 Milosevic, Slobodan: his pro-Serbian

speech of June 28, 1989 421 Milosz, Anka: mention 239, 252



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-- died in 1986 257-258 Milosz, Czeslaw: and his wife, Anka,

were hosts at their home to 100+ guests 252

-- at UC Berkeley - mention 245 -- came to read at UCSC 257 -- Chapter 22 & 24 about him 237-243 -- introduced his wife Anka to Mort 239 -- Mort, Wilma, Jana & Valerie had

dinner with 238 -- Nobel Prize Poet read at UC Berkeley

event 237-238 -- photo: Berkeley, 1984 237 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot ii, 223 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “To Robinson Jeffers” 239-240 -- Postwar Polish Poetry: an anthology

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983): Mort recommended it to the audience at UCB poetry reading 238

-- read at UCB with Popa and Mort 252 -- Seizure of Power (New York: Criterion

Books, 1955) 238 -- The Captive Mind (New York: Vintage

Books, 1981) 238 -- upset at death of friend Merton 239 -- won Nobel Prize in Literature, 1980,

Mort saw him in San Jose 257 -- his memory was fading in 1989 when

Mort met him in San Jose 258 Mime Troupe: Luis Valdez had been

member 210 -- Ron Davis packed meeting of ALF

with Mime Troupe and members of the DuBois Club 205-206, 208

Ming-Dao, Deng: mention 365, 566 -- and Mort met Tom Meschery at Bill

King’s home in Sausalito for the interview 454

-- biography of Kwan Saihung by Deng (Chronicles of Tao: the secret life of a Taoist master (San Francisco: Harper, 1993) 449

-- Chapter 44 is about him 446-456 -- comes close to being “lamed vovnik”

446 -- George Ow, Jr., Donna & Mort heard

Deng speak 447

-- George, Donna & Mort, Deng, & Sandy went to dinner after talk 447

-- he mention to Donna about Mort’s diet & posture 448

-- his mother was potter & author, Jade Snow Wong 452

-- Jack Coffey, teacher at Lick-Wilmer-ding probably told Deng about Mort’s Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 455

-- knew Mort as a teacher at Lick-Wilmerding high school SF 446-456

-- Mort asked Deng to be his literary executor 452

-- Mort taught Deng “everything I knew” concerning the art of poetry 450, 452

-- photo credit (for p. 544) 583 -- photo: San Francisco, 2005 446 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 431 -- Sandy Lydon and Mort Marcus taught

a Chinese literature class at Cabrillo College and had Deng as guest 446

-- Tao: daily meditations (San Francisco: Harper-San Francisco, c1992) 450-451

Mission Community Center, San Francisco 207

Mistra (former capital of Byzantine Empire, near Sparta) 331

-- Mort & Karen visited 338-339 -- stopped at taverna, foot of Mount

Taigos 337 -- Photo: Byzantine church 338 -- Photo: main “street” 337 -- Photo: palace ruins 337 -- Photo: remains of palace 338 Moments Without Names: New &

Selected... mention 444, 547 -- see also About the Author 589 Mondragon, Sergio: co-editor of El

Corno Emplumado: Mexican literary journal 210

Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592): one of Mort’s favorite writers 451, 580

-- “On Custom” quoted viii Moorehead, Agnes: mention 67 Morris, Hal: owner of Plaza Books,

Santa Cruz 281 Morris, Mary: mention 550



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Morton, Dennis: Poetry Santa Cruz reading series reinvigorated by Dennis Morton and Len Anderson 560

Mount Taigos: mention 337-338 Moyers, Bill: (Moyer’s) Jeff Tagami’s

October Light was a feature of Moyers’ series on PBS, "The United States of Poetry" 364

Murder Incorporated (criminal gang): mention 8

Murray, Les: Australian poet: mention 494

Mycenae: destination for Mort & Karen 332

-- Mycenae Inn (aka “La Belle Helene de Menelaus”) - Mort found it was modernized, not as Leonard Cottrell had found 333

-- Schliemann’s discovery 327, 486 Mycenae, Lion’s Gate: described 333 -- Photo: At the Lion’s Gate 333 Myers, Bert see Meyers, Bert Myerson, Alan: actor in The Committee

206 N Nasrudin: Mort’s favorite writers cited in

portion of interview by Bloomsbury Review quoted: Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536

Nauplion: first capital of Greece after 1821 Revolution mention (spelled incorrectly as Nauflion) 333, 341

-- Photo: Street in Nauplion 334 Navajo Meeting: included delegates

from Indian Commission, Department of the Interior 501, 506

Naxos Island: mention 548, 554 - see also Chapter 34 all about Mort & Karen’s visit 339-346, 355

-- Greek Orthodox Cathedral: scene of Easter ceremony 341

-- Photo: Lamb skins drying 341 -- Photo: Timbered passageway 340 Nazar, George: friend of William

Saroyan, sent some of Saroyan books to Mort, some of which were signed to Nazar 463

-- Mort did not hear from Nazar again [died, Fresno, 20 Mar 1998] 463

-- one of the books sent to Mort was Saroyan’s My Name Is Aram (N.Y., Harcourt, Brace and Co. ©1940) 463

-- owner of Fresno tobacco shop Tabatiere, friend of William Saroyan 458, 460-463

-- section of Chapter 45 about him 458-463

Nazi officials had signed guest book at Mycenae inn: “La Belle Helene de Menelaus”: Goering, Goebbels, Himmler 333

Nejgebauer, Aleksandar (Alexander Nijgebauer): mention 247

-- challenged Mort to a ping-pong game 296

-- Yugoslav Professor of Literature 210 Neri, Diane Photo: (group, Santa Cruz,

1984) 469 Neruda, Pablo: mention 149-150, 300,

302, 478 -- Machu Picchu / photographs, Barry

Brukoff ; poems, Pablo Neruda ; translation, Stephen Kessler ; prologue, Isabel Allende. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c2001) 478

-- Residence on earth, and other poems by Pablo Neruda, translated by Angel Flores (New York: New Directions, c1946) 300

-- Twenty Poems of Neruda and Viejo (“from Robert Bly’s Fifties Press”) 149

Neusbaum (Mrs., on Fred Allen’s radio show) 61

New Apartment House, The (Poem by Mort Marcus) 5-7

-- Poem Permissions 586 New Directions (publishing house):

mention 149, 162-163 New Poets of England and America

(Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1957) 127

New York bookshops: Used Books 67 New York Century Apartments 46-54 New York Daily News (photo credit for

p. 12) 584 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

mention 67, 79



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New York Museum of Modern Art mention 79

New York Museum of Natural History mention 48, 67

New York State Crime Commission mention 9

Nixon, Richard (Vice-Pres. nominee, and family at Rehoboth) 74-76

Norse, Harold: an American poet 163-164

North Point Press: published Gina Berriault’s books 271

Nosey de el Burpo: Mort’s French poodle 36-37, 40, 42

NPR radio (National Public Radio): Alan Cheuse, known for his book reviews 556

-- hundreds of Andrei Codrescu’s commentaries on NPR radio are gems 399

Nutzle, Futzie: The Armies Encamped in the Fields Beyond the Unfinished Avenues by Morton Marcus. Drawings by Futzie Nutzle. (Santa Cruz, CA., Jazz Productions, 1977) 533

O O’Connor, Flannery: mention 199 O’Connor, Frank James D. Houston

took his fiction writing class 164 O’Shea, Mary-Jo (photo credit for p.

136) 584 Olsen, Jack: Tillie’s husband died 242 Olsen, Laurie: Tillie’s older daughter

242-243 Olsen, Tillie: represented writers on

Artist’s Liberation Front 205-208 -- Silences by Tillie Olson (New York:

Delacorte Pess, 1978) 242 -- Tell me a Riddle (Philadelphia,

Lippincott, 1961) 205-206, 242 -- “Tillie Olson’s Last Days” [i.e., Olsen]

242-243 -- was the mother of Julie Olsen

Edwards & mother-in-law of Rob Edwards, both colleagues at Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA 242-243, 519

-- Yonnondio, from the thirties by Tillie Olson (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974) 242

Olson, Charles: mention 562 Olson, Tillie see Olsen, Tillie [title of

section on p. 242 uses “Olson”] Olympic Airways: mention 355 Origins by Mort Marcus published by

George Hitchcock’s Kayak Press 219, 241, 275-276, 285

-- compared to Mort’s Santa Cruz Mountain Poems 226

-- talked about Origins w/Al Young 313 Ow Family Properties: mention 434 Ow, George Jr.: mention 448 -- Breakfast Club role explained 520 -- Breakfast Club: Mort Marcus, George

Ow, Jr., and others 435-436 -- Chapter 42 about him 432-437 -- Donna & Mort heard Deng Ming-Dao

speak 447 -- Founder, member of Steering Com-

mittee, Pacific Rim Film Festival 521 -- George, Donna & Mort, Deng Ming-

Dao, & Sandy Lydon went to dinner after talk 447

-- one of Mort’s “just beings” = “lamed vovniks” 432-433, 437


-- photo: Santa Cruz, 2006 433 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot ii, 431 Oyster Bar, New York City, Grand

Central Station: mention 297 P Pacific Rim Film Festival: mention

434, 509, 521, 556, 569 -- About the Author 589 -- Billy Marshall-Stoneking showed two

films on “Nosepeg” 509 Pages from a Scrapbook of

Immigrants: mention 5, 370, 529, 476, 533, 535, 546-547, 555

-- About the Author 589 Palo Alto, CA: Houstons had been in

Palo Alto before Santa Cruz 174 -- Jana Marcus was born in Palo Alto

during Mort’s year at Stanford 162



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-- Kenneth & Miriam Patchen lived in Palo Alto 162, 164

-- Marcus family lived there during Stanford days 162

-- Norman Thomas’ wife, Alice, and Wilma Marcus worked together 162

Panetta, Leon (Congressman): identified as “Senator” 498

Paros Island: Mort & Karen’s visit there before going on to Island of Naxos 340

Pasha, Ibrahim: led Turkish forces in 1821 Revolution 338

Patchen Memorial Reading in San Francisco (1972) 164, 313

Patchen, Kenneth: mention 162, 164, 290, 565

-- Al Young was master-of-ceremonies at reading in Memorial for Patchen at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313-314

-- Elegy for Kenneth Patchen included in Mort’s Where the Oceans Cover Us 276

-- Mort bought his 3 books 112 Patchen, Miriam (Muriel): mention 162,

164, 565 -- probably selected Mort to read at

Memorial for Kenneth Patchen at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313

Patriarch Gregorios V.: Stephen showed Mort & Karen the Patriarch’s writing desk 330

Patsy (school playmate) 54-55 Patterson, Floyd vs. Ingmar Johansen:

boxing match 141 Paul: Mort’s bouzoukee teacher at a San

Jose nightclub 325-326 Payne, Robert: The White Pony, an

anthology of Chinese poetry from the earliest times to the present day, newly translated. Edited by Robert Payne. (New York: J. Day Co., 1947) 147

Peloponnesus: a destination for Mort & Karen 331

-- Chapter 33: … Peloponnesus 328-339 Penn, Rolf: teacher at Lick-Wilmerding

High School: served in German commando unit 199

Pennington, Ann: translated poems by Vasko Popa 247

Perera, Victor: in re Cabrillo College poetry series 228

-- photo (group Santa Cruz, 1972) 227 Perry, Nancy Ling: founder of the

Symbionese Liberation Army, had a love affair with Robin Magowan 413

-- had targeted Robert & Robin Magowan as kidnap victims of the Symbionese Liberation Army 413

Perspective: co-edited by Mona Van Dyn & Jarvis A. Thurston 113, 118, 123

Pessoa, Fernando: one of Andrei Codre-scu’s four alternate identities in his poetry 398

Peters, Robert: Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows Cast by Stars by Mort reviewed by Peters in Kayak no. 24 369



Peterson, Dorothy: Joan Kloen was Robert Peterson’s partner, after Dorothy 204

-- Robert Peterson’s girlfriend 201-202, 270

Peterson, Robert “Bob”: mention 201, 220, 268, 272, 463

-- All the Time in the World was his 1st book (Brooklyn, NY : Hanging Loose Press, 1996) 522

-- died in 2002 204 -- had been abandoned by Dorothy 270 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 227 -- Joan Kloen was his partner, after

Dorothy 204 -- Leaving Taos (New York : Harper &

Row, 1981) won the United States Poetry Award 204


-- Poem Permissions 587 -- Photo Credits, Estate of Robert

Peterson (photo credit for p. 201) 584 -- Poems: “Hands Folded Like Napkins”

201-202 -- Poems: “The Dog Is Breaking Down”

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-- Poems: “Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9” 463-464

-- purchased a cheap bouzoukee for Mort in Greece, which Paul did not like because of its style 326

-- read at San Francisco Public Library with Mort and Clemens Starck 210

-- photo (San Francisco, 1970) 201 -- photo: Santa Cruz poet: mention 463-

464 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 183 -- urged that Mort should travel to

Europe 220, 325 Photographers Unknown (photo credits)

584 Pi-o (aka Peter Oustabasides):

Australian poet 494 Piaf, Edith: “La Vie en Rose” mention

490-493 Pirenne Theory: Mort answered Prof.

Gerhard’s question 115 Poems: “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack

Gilbert 396-397 -- “A Canticle to the Water Birds” by

William Everson 381 -- “A Little More Traveling Music” by Al

Young 317-318 -- “Abbot’s Lagoon” by Dennis Schmitz

458 -- “Acoma, New Mexico” by Ray

González 542 -- “Afternoon in the Canyon” by George

Hitchcock 215-216 -- “All the Women” by Gregory Hall 362-

363 -- “Another Note to the Young” by Greg

Keith 559 -- “Auvergne” by Joseph Stroud 232 -- “Before the End” by Vasko Popa:

translated 249 -- “Below Mount T’ui Koy, Home of the

Gods, Todos Santa Cuchumatan, Guatemalan Highlands” by Joe Stroud 231

-- “Burning the News” by Lewis Turco 137

-- “Calls from the Outside” by Robert Hershon 522-523

-- “Carabao” by Shirley Ancheta 366-367

-- “Concentration Camp Constellation” by Lawson Inada, part of quoted 138

-- “Daily Spanking, Child Next Door” by Gerald J. “Jerry” Fleming 540

-- “Dance” by Mort Marcus is set to Lou Harrison’s “4th Movement of Varied Trio” 442

-- “Dawn” by Lennart Bruce 273 -- “Daybreak” by Bert Meyers 565 -- “Egg” by Charles G. “Chuck”

Hanzlicek 460 -- “Eye in the Wind” by Robin Magowan

413-414 -- “Fire” part of prose-poem, by Mort

Marcus 500 -- “Floor Nail” by Vasko Popa: translated

249 -- “Give Me Back My Little Rags” by

Vasko Popa 247 -- “Goodbye to the Twentieth Century”

by Mort Marcus 572-574 -- “Green” by Jack Marshall 391-392 -- “Hands Folded Like Napkins” by

Robert Peterson, part of 201 -- “Happiness” by Raymond Carver 284 -- “Happy Endings” by Shirley Kaufman

218-219 -- “History: Madness” by Stan Rice 387-

388 -- “I Live Just Over There” by Stephen

Kessler 478-479 -- “In All These Acts” by William

Everson 384-386 -- “In the House of Silk” by Joe Stroud

230 -- “In the Meantime” by Clemens Starck

202 -- “It Is the Morning” by Gregory Hall

362 -- “Ladies at their Windows” by Donald

Justice 132 -- “Looking Back at Camp” by Lawson

Inada, part of quoted 139 -- “Looking for Vasko Popa” by Mort

Marcus 255-257 -- “Majke Jevrosime #3” (lines from) by

Mort Marcus 422 -- “Marooned” by Mort Marcus 490-493 -- “Men Who Cry” by Mort Marcus 435 -- “Message” by Jeff Tagami 365-366



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-- “Moon and Flower” (partial) by Mort Marcus 428

-- “My Aloneness” from Shouting Down the Silence (2002) by Mort Marcus 153-154

-- “My Daughters, Grown” by Mort Marcus 526-528

-- “No Other Life” untitled selections from, by Gary Young 543-545

-- “Once I Woke” by Mort Marcus 353 -- “Other Lives” by Vern Rutsala 135-

136 -- “Out Walking” by Lennart Bruce 273 -- “Poem to Wilma” by Mort Marcus 130 -- “Pretty Happy” by Peter Johnson 539 -- “Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of

Milk” by Charles Simic 299 -- “Salt and Pepper” by Vern Rutsala

547 -- “Smoking Cigars” by Mort Marcus

179-180 -- “Song of The Adomboulou: 48” from

Splay Anthem (New York: New Direc-tions, 2006) by Nathaniel “Nate” Mackey 562-563

-- “Suicide” by Tom Meschery 454 -- “Sunflowers” by Bert Meyers 565 -- “Telephone” by Vern Rutsala 547 -- “The Bird of Dreams” by Ray González

542 -- “The Dog Is Breaking Down” by

Robert Peterson 201-202 -- “The First Law of Thermodynamics”

by Joseph Stroud 234 -- “The Frost” by Charles Simic 298-299 -- “The Library” by Mort Marcus 574 -- “The Man Downstairs” by Mort

Marcus 130 -- “The Old” by Bert Meyers 564 -- “The Poet at Seven” by Donald Justice

132-133 -- “The Star-Wizard’s Legacy” by Vasko

Popa: translated from “The Yawn of Yawns” 250

-- “The Whirling Dervish” by Mort Mar-cus published in Mademoiselle 130

-- “Three Moves” by John Logan 192-193

-- “To Robinson Jeffers” by Czeslaw Milosz 240

-- “Toward Certain Divorce” by Mort Marcus 264

-- “Two Roads” by Mort Marcus 262-263 -- “Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9” by Robert

Peterson 463-464 -- “untitled” by Gregory Hall 362-363 -- “Villa Thermidor” by George

Hitchcock 215-216 -- “Waking” by Mort Marcus 110-111 -- “Wondering What It’s All About” by

Mort Marcus published in Kayak 131 Poet Laureate of California, 2005: Al

Young received honor 319 Poet Laureate of the U.S. Charles

Simic 244 -- Robert Hass 194 -- Ted Kooser (Koozer) 236 Poetry: “academic poetry” defined

126 Poetry in the Schools program:

Monterey & Santa Cruz Co. 362 -- San Francisco program 200 Poetry influences: Al Young’s racial

experience 317 -- Bishop, Elizabeth: Mort used as

model 112 -- Marcus, Mort: denial of his father 483 -- Patchen, Kenneth: Mort bought his 3

books 112 -- Rich, Adrienne: Mort used as model

112 -- Roethke, Theodore: Mort used as

model 112 -- Rukeyser, Muriel: Mort used as model

112 -- Shapiro, Karl: Mort used as model

112 -- Wilbur, Richard: Mort used as model

112 -- Williams, William Carlos on Mort 113 -- Zen-like influences 203 Poetry Show: mention 234, 318, 396,

476, 478, 560-561 -- About the Author 589 Poets: comprise our “belief in the

brother- and sisterhood of poets” 386 Point Arena, CA: mention 200, 478 -- another petition to fire Mort present-

ed to school board, and denied 172 -- Chapter 14 on Point Arena 169-174



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-- Mort hired to teach primary school at Point Arena Elementary School 168

-- Photo: Mort & Jana, 1963 170 -- was most emotionally rewarding

teaching experience for Mort 199 -- Wilma & Jana stayed home, Mort

taught 5th grade 170 -- Wilma, Jana & Mort: their neighbors

invited them to observe Sunday holi-day, but were shocked to learn that Jews do not celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday 169

Pong, Frank: mention 148 Ping-Pong: Mort played 131, 133, 296 Popa, Vasko: mention 210, 218, 258,

295 -- Chapter 23 all about him 244-251 -- Charles Simic kept in touch with

Popa 295 -- died at 69-yrs., Jan. 5, 1991, just

before Croatia-Bosnia War 257 -- fought with Tito in World War II 251 -- his technique of sequencing poems

used by Mort 226 -- his visit was discussed with Charles

Simic at George Hitchcock’s collating part for Kayak 295-296

-- Mort & Donna attempted to visit Popa in Belgrade, but Popa was on the Dalmatian Coast convalescing with broken leg; Mort and Donna had just been there but didn’t know Popa was there 254-255

-- Mort Marcus picked him up at SF Int. Airport & drove down coast 244-246

-- photo: business card, 1987 253 -- photo: in the U.S., 1970 244 -- photo: Poem Permissions 587 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 223 -- Poems: “Before the End”: trans. 249 -- Poems: “Bones to Bones”: mention

246, 248 -- Poems: “Floor Nail”: translated 249 -- Poems: “Games”: mention 210, 246,

248 -- Poems: “Give Me Back My Little Rags”

by Vasko Popa 247 -- Poems: “Looking for Vasko Popa” by

Mort Marcus 255-257 -- Poems: “The Little Box”: mention 246

-- Poems: “The Star-Wizard’s Legacy”: translated from “The Yawn of Yawns” 250

-- Poems: “The Yawn of Yawns”: mention 246

-- read: Cabrillo to standing ovation 250 -- read: UCB with Milosz and Mort 245,

252-253 -- Simic invited Mort to be the West

Coast host for Popa while on tour of U.S. 244

-- the State Dept. feared anti-Tito comments by Popa 245-246, 248


-- was a Serbian and a Communist 245 Popkin, Richard: mention 145, 514 -- article on JFK in New York Review of

Books 145 -- left Iowa in 1961: to Univ. Calif., San

Diego & Wash. Univ. St. Louis 146 Pound, Erza: mention 113, 510 -- Joseph Stroud saw Hemingway’s

letter from McLeish about Ezra Pound 236

Powers, Francis Gary: beginning of The Cold War 134

Prescriptive Metaphors: (actual title:) Metaphors in the history of psychology, by David E. Leary (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 374

Prose poem: an international journal (Providence, RI: Providence College, c1992-): mention 535, 537, 539

Prose Poem, The: Chapter 51 (Mort’s narrative on the Prose Poem form) 533

Provatakis, Basil: Cabrillo College art historian 325

Providence College, Rhode Island: Mort read his work there 139, 537

Purdy, Dave: mention 496, 500 -- invited Anita Wilkins & endorsed her

request to have Mort & Joe Stroud 489

Pursuing the Dream Bone: mention 547, 569

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Q Quarry West: (aka Quarry): UC Santa

Cruz literary journal 289 R Rabelais, François : mention 65, 580 -- Mort’s favorite writers cited in portion

of interview by Bloomsbury Review quoted: Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536

Racing Cloud: attended Marin County reading (claimed Native American heritage) 304-305

-- was berated by Thomas Sanchez 305 Racism: Lawson Inada’s Iowa experience

138 -- “Milton” had NY experience 181-182 -- racial discrimination experienced by

Mort at Rehoboth Beach, 1952 74 -- Mort’s Air Force experience 106-108 -- was a theme that surfaced at Point

Arena 171 Rakosi, Carl: mention 540 Raminsh, Imant: mention 568 -- Latvian-born Canadian composer,

included three of Mort’s poems in/for his commissioned piece for chorus & orchestra 567

-- Mort, Donna, Imant, Cheryl & John became good friends 568

-- photo: (group, New York, 2007) 567 -- photo: with Marcus at Carnegie Hall

(New York, 2007) 569 -- The Peace of Wild Things by Imant

Raminsh is the song cycle for large chorus and full orchestra that included Mort’s poetry, performed in May 2006 and taken to Carnegie Hall 19 Jun 2007 and the East Coast in 2008 567

Ramshur, Steve: married Valerie Marcus 526

-- photo credit (for p. 568-569) 584 Ramshur, Zachary Marcus (Mort’s first

grand-child): photo: Donna & Mort with Zachary (Union City, N.J., 2004) 526

Randall, Margaret: co-editor of El Corno Emplumado: Mexican literary journal 210

Random House: Modern Library series 65

Rankin, Ian: mention 367 Ray, Satyajit: film Pather Panchali =

Song of the little road (Chicago, IL: Films, Inc., 1995) 141

Red (Mort’s classmate at Beechwood School): mention 32-34

-- betrayal mention 73 Reed College: mention 204 Reed, Ishmael: read at Memorial for

Kenneth Patchen at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313

Rehoboth Beach: racial discrimination experienced by Mort 74

Reinberg, Ronn: lighting designer for Mort’s The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 467

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1984) 469 Reinhardt, Djanjo: mention 65 Reles, Abe aka “Kid Twist” 8 Resnais, Alain: film Hiroshima Mon

Amour (Criterion Collection, Janus Films, 2003) 141

Rethymnon, Crete: Scandinavian colony 347, 349, 355-356

-- site of a temple in honor of Diana Dikta (goddess) 350

-- site of birthplace of oracle Apollo 350 Rexroth, Kenneth: mention 209 -- George Hitchcock was a protété 212 -- master of ceremonies for poetry

reading at UC Berkeley 237-238 -- quoted about Robert Bly 300 Reyes, Carlos: mention 277-278 Rhodes, Daniel: mention 228 Rice, Anne “Annie”: Anne & Stan Rice,

Mort & Wilma visited 388 -- Jana’s first book was a volume of

photographs and interviews with Anne Rice’s friends: In the shadow of the vampire: reflections from the world of Anne Rice (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, c1997) 389, 525

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-- wrote fiction, they moved to New Orleans 389

Rice, Michelle: was dying of leukemia; died at five-years-old 388-389

Rice, David Talbot: Byzantine painting: the last phase (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968) 339

Rice, Stanley “Stan”: mention 193 -- Anne & Stan Rice, Mort & Wilma

visited 388 -- Chapter 39 includes Section 387-389 -- died (brain cancer, 2002) 389 -- Jana & Valerie played with the Rice

children 388 -- Joe Stroud took Stan & Mort on a

hike in The Forest of Nicene Marks State Park, above Aptos, CA 388

-- painting became his passion 389 -- photo: Anne & Stan (New Orleans,

2000) 388 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 357 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “History: Madness” 387-388 -- read at Cabrillo College Poetry series

387 -- Stan’s death was motivation for Joe

Stroud and Mort to reconcile 389 Rich, Adrienne: mention 474, 476, 560 -- An atlas of the difficult world: poems,

1988-1991 (New York: W.W. Norton, c1991) 557

-- Chapter 53 has section on 556-558 -- Mort used her as model 112 -- Mort wrote a review of Adrienne

Rich’s work for the weekly Metro when her An Atlas appeared in 1991 557

-- named “Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year, 1995” 557

-- Phil Levine introduced Adrienne to Mort 556

-- she sent 3 jars of olives and a note to Mort 558

-- she won Yale Younger Poets Award for her A change of world. [Poems] With a foreword by W. H. Auden (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1951) (Yale series of younger poets.v.48) 556

-- The diamond cutters: and other poems (New York: Harper, 1955) 557

Riefenstahl, Leni: documentary film-maker has Nazi records on file 407

-- film: “Triumph of the Will” (Triumph des Willens das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934 = Triumph of the will) (Synapse Films, 2000) 194

Rilke, Rainer Maria: mention 300, 308, 363

Roberts, Elliot Rocholz (Eliot, Rochholz, Rochoz): mention 204

-- photo credit (for p. 203) 584 Roberts, Nigel: Mort, Anita Wilkins &

Joe Stroud were met at Sydney by hosts Bill “Billy” Marshall-Stoneking & Nigel Roberts 494-497, 501-502

-- Nigel attempted to save tour 505, 507 -- visited SF; Mort & Joe spent evenings

with in SF 510 -- & Billy Marshall-Stoneking: handled

arrangement in Australia for the California-Southwest tour 498-499

Robinson, Jackie (baseball) xv, 59, 106 Robinson, Sugar Ray vs. Gene Fulmer:

boxing match 141 Robles, Al: Shirley Ancheta‘s “Carabao”

dedicated to Robles 366 Roe, Stuart: Bay Area Television

Consortium 475-476 -- TV director, planned to film The Eight

Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 470 Roethke, Theodore: Mort used as

model 112 Rosner, Ronnie “Ron”: mention 73-74 Rossellini, Roberto (Italian filmaker):

mention 67 Rothenberg, Jerome (at UC San Diego):

mention 509 Rothstein, Stanley: described Max

Marcus as a compulsive gambler 487 -- son of Mort’s Aunt Sophia 486-488 Rubin, Jerry: spoke at last meet of

Artists’ Liberation Front 211 Rukeyser, Muriel: Mort used as model

112 Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana,

1207-1273) see Jalãl al-Din Rumi Runciman, Steven: Byzantine art and

western mediaeval taste. (Athens, 1966). 339

Runyon, Damon: mention 49



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Rutsala, Joan 135-136, 477, 545-547 Rutsala, Vern-- mention 127, 129, 131,

134-136, 141, 143, 476 -- Chapter 51 has section on 545-547 -- Mort Marcus’ Pages from a Scrapbook

of Immigrants based on Rutsala’s approach to his Idaho poems 546

-- Mort stayed with Vern & Joan at Portland 477

-- of Portland, OR; Vern & Joan’s “hospitality was always overwhelming” 545-547

-- photo credit (for p. 135, 546) 584 -- photo: (Portland, Oregon, 1990) 546 -- photo: with baby Matthew Rutsala

(Iowa, 1961) 135 -- photo: with baby Matthew Rutsala

(thumbnail snapshot) 121 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “Other Lives” 135-136 -- Poems: “Salt and Pepper” 547 -- Poems: “Telephone” 547 -- The moment’s equation, poems

(Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, c2004); one of five finalists for a National Book Award 547

-- The Window : his first book 134 S Saihung, Kwan: his biography by Deng

Ming-Dao (Chronicles of Tao: the secret life of a Taoist master (San Francisco: Harper, 1993) 449

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David): Catcher in the Rye (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951) 68

Samaria: mention 355 -- (aka Sainted Maria or Holy Mary) 351 Samaria, Gorge of : mention 331, 347 -- Photo: with magic walking stick 349 -- Photo: old tree (1975) 350 -- Photo: Gorge (1975) 351 San Francisco: Book 6, Chapters 16-20

“San Francisco in the 1960s” 183-221 -- Haight-Ashbury district: mention 207 -- Kenneth Patchen Memorial Reading

(1972) 164 -- Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park,

20,000 attended the last meeting of

Artists’ Liberation Front: January 1967 211

-- Rock & Roll music: “San Francisco Sound” 207

-- Summer of Love 141 San Francisco Mime Troupe: mention

205-206, 208, 210 San Francisco Review: George

Hitchcock was poetry editor 206, 212 Sanchez, Elba: mention 474 Sanchez, Sonia: Poetry in the Schools

program 200 Sanchez, Thomas: attended Marin

County reading 304-305 -- Noel Young knew Thomas Sanchez in

Santa Barbara 305 -- Rabbit Boss sold for a reported Million

$$ 304-305 -- Racing Cloud was berated by

Sanchez, which led to Mort challenging Sanchez physically 305

Sand, George: mention 113-114, 116 Santa Cruz County, CA: described (as

of 1968) 224 -- “I came to see Santa Cruz as home”:

wrote Mort 358 -- dubbed “Murder capital of the world”

in 1970s 358 -- Earthquake of 1989 472 -- Flood of 1982 472 -- the Beach Boardwalk was the “Coney

Island of the West” 359 -- was known for having the first surfing

contest in the U.S. 359 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year,

(1999): About the Author 589 -- Adrienne Rich won award (1995) 557 -- awardees were invited to participate

in a New Year’s Eve extravaganza for the new Millennium: all previous 15 awardees participated 560

-- Lou Harrison gave Mort a “Laurel for the Laureate” when Mort received award in 1999 438, 441

-- Mort won award for 1999 560 Santa Cruz High School: Mort’s Com-

mencement Address, 560, 574-79 Santa Cruz Mountain Poems: mention

277, 400, 447-448, 452, 455, 515 -- About the Author 589



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-- compared to Origins 226 -- Mort took the manuscript to Capra

Press in Santa Barbara 275-281 Santana, Manuel: La Manzana: Mexican

restaurant founded by Santana 473-474

Santorini, Crete: mention 329, 354 Saroyan, William: George Nazar, owner

of Fresno tobacco shop, was friend of Saroyan 460-463

Saxons Gang, Baby : mention 54-55 Schevill, James: Poetry in the Schools

program 200 Schliemann, Heinrich: at Mycenae -

mention 486 -- discovered remains of Troy 327, 333 Schmitz, Dennis “Denny” (Schmidt):

mention 191, 197 -- photo: Sacramento, 1998 458 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 457 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “Abbot’s Lagoon” 458 -- poet at Sacramento State Univ. 285 -- poetry reading at Berkeley 237 -- student of John Logan, mentor of

Raymond Carver, located in Sacramento 458

Schoenberg, Arnold: Lou Harrison studied with Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, & John Cage 443

Schraub, Paul: photo credits 584 Schwartz, Naomi: photo credit (for p.

390) 584 Schwartz, Steve: read poetry at I-Thou

Coffee Shop with Laura Ulewicz & Mort 209-210

Schwenterley, Jim: a theater operator, one of Mort’s “lamed vovniks” 433

Scoville, Jon: composer: husband of Tandy Beal 465

Scowcroft, Richard: mention 158-159 Seferis, George (poet): author of “Under

the Mask, a void” 486 Sexton, Anne: confessional poet 126 Sextus Empiricus: in regard to Richard

Popkin 145-146 Shakespeare Santa Cruz: mention 434 Shapiro (Mr.): yeshiva fundraiser, San

Francisco 186-188 Shapiro, Karl: Mort used as model 112

Sharmon, Bill: mention 455 Shaw, George Bernard: “Don Juan in

Hell” (Man & Superman) 67 Sheridan, Arthur: of City Lights Books,

San Francisco 206 Shouting Down the Silence, Verse

Poems by Mort Marcus (2000) 153, 318, 555

-- About the Author 589 Siegel, Laurence “Larry” (mother’s 4th

husband, Mort’s step-father): mention 46-47, 49-50, 52-53, 57-58, 65, 94, 372, 484

-- “Finally a Father” Chapter 3 about him 29-44

-- Mort’s mother married “Larry” 1945, divorced 1949 29-44

-- photo: Larry, Morton & Mort’s mother (New Jersey, 1947) 37

-- was abusive to Mort’s mother 29-44 Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County, CA):

became home of Raymond & Maryann Carver in Cupertino 286

-- mention 358, 558 Simic, Alexander: son of Charles Simic

298 Simic, Charles “Charlie”: mention 362 -- Chapter 29 about him 295-299 -- Classic Ballroom Dances (Alexandria,

VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1998) 297 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 227 -- kept in touch with Vasko Popa 295 -- Mort analyzed his poetry 298 -- Mort met Simic at George Hitchcock’s

collating party for Kayak 295 -- moved to Santa Rosa 295-296 -- photo: Great Barrington, 1970 295 -- photo: Poem Permissions 587 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 267 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “Prodigy” published in Classic

Ballroom Dances 297 -- Poems: “Return to a Place Lit by a

Glass of Milk” 299 -- Poems: “The Frost” 298-299 -- Poet Laureate of the United States

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-- read at Cabrillo College with great success 295

-- Simic invited Mort to be the West Coast host for Popa while on tour of U.S. 244

-- Somewhere Among Us a Stone is Taking Notes (San Francisco: Kayak Press, 1969) 244

-- taught at California State Hayward (now known as Cal State University, East Bay) 295

-- taught at University of New Hampshire 297



-- What the Grass Says: poems (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Kayak Press, n.d.) 244

Simic, Charles & Helen: Charles, native of Serbia 295-259, 298

Simic, Helen & Nicky: wife & daughter of Charles Simic 298

Simon and Schuster: publisher: desired to restart New World Writing 175

Simon, Marjorie: George Hitchcock’s partner 286

Simpson, Louis: mention 150 Singer, Isaac Bashevis: in regard to

religious faith: Gimpel the Fool, and other stories (New York: Noonday Press, 1957) 145

Skorzeny, Otto: marriage request approved by Hitler 408

Skryznecki, Peter: Australian poet 494 Slattery, Ken (basketball coach, Irving

School) : mention 62-63, 68 Smalley, Topsy: Cabrillo College

librarian, advised Cheryl Anderson to include Mort’s books in mix of chorale works 567

Smith, Bessie: mention 65 Smith, Bradley “Brad”: and his wife,

Jenny Wilkes & Mort visited Edinburgh Festival and toured Wales 414

-- photo: Santa Cruz, 2001 414 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 405

Smith, Martin: photo credit (for p. 226) 584

Smith, Mason: photo (group, Santa Cruz, 1972) 227

Snodgrass, W. D.: mention 126 Snow, C. P. (Charles P.): The Two

Cultures and the scientific revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959, 1962) 144

Snow, Van: mention 515 Snyder, Gary: mention 199 -- read at Memorial for Kenneth Patchen

at City Lights Poetry Theater SF 313 -- read his poems with Donald Justice,

Robert Duncan, & Mort 191 Sontag, Susan: mention 176 Soto, Gary: mention 474, 541 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 227 -- Phil Levine’s student at Fresno State

U. 459 Sparta, Peloponnesus: Mort & Karen

visited 334-337 Spike: Mort’s classmate at public

primary school 37, 40, 43, 57, 61 Squaw Valley Writers Conference 453 Stafford, William “Bill”: Mort compared

Stafford to Robert Frost 292-293 Stamitis, Johnny “The Seed”: played

Greek music on his bouzoukee at a Cabrillo College concert 325

Stan -- alias of former paratrooper who “sucked up” Norman Mailer 142-143

Stanford University: Chapter 13 all about Mort at Stanford 158-168

-- Jim Houston attended 220, 314 -- Kirby Wilkins attended 481 -- Mort accepted to attend 155 -- Mort decided to leave 167 -- Mort’s 3d choice for graduate work

155 -- writing program was disappointment:

of 25 Wilson scholars at Stanford, 23 quit 158, 190

Starck, Clemens: mention 202-204, 210 -- photo: Dallas, Oregon, 2002 202 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 183 -- photo: Tor House, Carmel, 2004 203 -- Poem Permissions 587 -- Poems: “In the Meantime” 203



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-- read at San Francisco Public Library with Mort and Robert Peterson 210

-- read at UC Santa Cruz for a week 204 -- read with Robert Peterson & Mort

202-204 Steam Beer brewery tap room: mention

202 Stegner, Mary: she helped pack Mort to

go home; Wilma was in childbirth labor 161

Stegner, Page: photo: in costume as a monk (Santa Cruz, 1969) 241

Stegner, Wallace Earle: mention 190 -- All The Little Live Things (title used:

All the Pretty Little Things) [New York, Viking Press [1967] 159

-- criticized Allan Ginsberg’s poetry 159 -- Mort challenged Stegner in class 160 -- Stegner Fellowships at Stanford

University 159-161 -- The Big Rock Candy Mountain (New

York: Penguin Books, 1991) 159 Steinbeck Center, John: About the

Author 589 Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men

quoted by Jeff Tagami 365 Steinhardt, Anne: group photo (Santa

Cruz, 1972) 227 Stephen: curator of the Greek National

Historical Museum 330 Steppenwolf (rock band): mention 207 Stern, Eric: danced in Mort’s The Eight

Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 467 Stern, Gerald?: Mort’s favorite writers

cited in portion of interview by Bloomsbury Review quoted: Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Swift, Aristophanes, Zhuangzi, Rumi of the Mathnawi, Nasrudin 536

Steve (black Air Force man tried to scrub his skin color off with a stiff brush) 106-108

Stevens, Wallace: mention 113 Stitt, Sonny (jazz musician): mention

79 Storm King School (Cornwall on

Hudson, NY): mention 71 Stroud, Joseph “Joe”: mention 193-197,

204, 224, 389, 539, 543, 560-561

-- and Mort organized a day long benefit for Santa Cruz bookshops, called The Great Santa Cruz Word Quake Benefit 473

-- and Mort reconciled 389 -- Anita Wilkins & Mort went to Cabrillo

College President Swenson, who accepted their proposal. Joe was dubious of the idea. 490

-- Anita Wilkins was invited by Dave Purdy to tour Australia. He endorsed her request to have Mort & Joe Stroud to go along. 489

-- Anita Wilkins, Joe Stroud & Mort: three-week tour of Australia’s East coast for a poetry reading 489, 495

-- Chapter 21 all about Stroud 228-236 -- Clem Starck came to UCSC 204 -- expressed disgust at the egoism of

poets 229, 235 -- friend of Jack Gilbert & Linda Gregg

394-395 -- In the Sleep of Rivers (Santa Barbara:

Capra Press, 1974) 277 -- Jeff Tagami & Shirley Ancheta were

both Joe Stroud’s students 364 -- Joe and his girlfriend Rachel left for

Island of Karpathos, Aegean Sea 329 -- Joe was interviewed by Mort in 1985,

on his KUSP poetry show 396 -- Kirby Wilkins & Mort were brought

back together by Joe Stroud 485 -- Kirby Wilkins & Mort were buddies

479, 481-482 -- Memorial for John Logan 197 -- Mort & Karen met by chance Joe and

his girlfriend Rachel in Athens 328 -- photo: Wilkins, Marcus, Stroud

(Santa Cruz mountains, 2007) 486 -- photo: watching Paddy (Santa Cruz,

1991) 501 -- photo: Mort w/Joe on Birthday 561 -- photo: Mort’s wedding day (Santa

Cruz, 1986) 376 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1982 229 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot ii, 223 -- photo: Tor House (Carmel, 2004) 203 -- Poem Permissions 587-588 -- Poems: “Auvergne” 232



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-- Poems: “Below Mount T’ui Koy, Home of the Gods, Todos Santa Cuchuma-tan, Guatemalan Highlands” 231

-- Poems: “In the House of Silk” 230 -- Poems: “The First Law of

Thermodynamics” 234 -- protété of John Logan 228 -- published two books with Copper

Canyon Press 235 -- regarding the “Poetry Show” on KUSP

& Poetry Santa Cruz 560 -- Rusty Scupper bistro at Ghrardelli

Square, SF, was meeting place for group of poets, including Stroud 193

-- student of George Hitchcock’s at San Francisco State University 228

-- taught at Cabrillo College 228-236 -- took Stan Rice & Mort on a hike in

The Forest of Nicene Marks State Park, above Aptos, CA 388

-- was best man at Mort’s wedding, 1986 270

-- watched Muhammad Ali boxing matches with Mort and Leonard Gardner 269

-- Wilma Marcus was comforted by Stroud, who also wept after Mort read his “Toward Certain Divorce” 306

-- won the Witter Bynner Prize for 2005 236

Summer of Love, SF (1967) 220 Swanger, David: Wayne’s College of

Beauty (Kansas City, Mo.: BkMk Press, ©2006) - winner of the John Ciardi Prize, 2005 560

Swanton Corn Roast: annual event in community north of Davenport, CA [the Corn Roast ended at this location in 1985] 293

Sward, Robert (Santa Cruz poet): mention 463, 560-561

-- Caesura magazine 535-536 -- interview quoted 536-537 -- photo: group photo, Santa Cruz,

1990s) 483 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 2004 463 -- Poem Permissions 588 Swenson, Robert (President of Cabrillo

College): mention 224

-- Anita Wilkins & Mort went to Swenson, who accepted proposal 490

-- Australia & Tahiti travel cost was prohibitive - Mort declared he would ask Cabrillo College President Swenson for fares 489

Swift, Jonathan: mention 65, 159, 399 -- Mort’s favorite writers cited in portion


Syntagmou Square, Athens: mention 328, 575

T Tabatiere: George Nazar’s tobacco shop

in Fresno 460-463 Tagami, Jeff: mention 558 -- Mort took Jeff Tagami to dinner with


-- October Light was his first book of poems and a feature of Bill Moyers’ series on PBS, "The United States of Poetry" 364-365

-- one of Joe Stroud & Mort’s outstanding students 364

-- Poem Permissions 588 -- Poems: “Message” 365-366 Tagami, Jeff & Shirley Ancheta:

mention 558 -- in Kearny Street workshop 364 -- Photo: Shirley & Jeff (SF, 1985) 365 Tahiti: Mort, Anita Wilkins & Joe Stroud

got stranded in Tahiti for three days 490

Taylor, Marcia: coordinator productions in Europe for MGM 468

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1984) 469 Taylor, Marcia & Sara Wilbourne:

taught Mort a good lesson: arts are ephemeral 470

Tennessee (friend of Cool Breeze): mention 56-57, 59-60

-- Mort recalled confrontation w/ 63, 88 Texador, Tito (Mort’s school friend in

New York): mention 48



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The Library: Mort’s essay “The Library” concludes this book 574, 580-81

The Young American Poets. Introduction by James Dickey. (Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1968)-- mention 220, 237, 244, 301, 390

Theodorakis, Mikis: popular Greek composer was touring Greece 329

-- set Nikos Gatsos’ “Amorgos” to music 331, 337

Thermopylae, Crete: mention 354 Tholos tomb: mention 333 Thomas, Alice: she worked with Wilma

Marcus at Palo Alto’s Paris Theater 162-163

-- with Norman, left for Greece 325 Thomas, Norman (a Welshman, not the

Socialist): mention 163, 204, 220, 262 -- Ask at the Unicorn: [Norfolk, Conn.]

New Directions [1963] 162 -- photo: Palo Alto, 1961 162 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 157 -- urged that Mort should travel to

Europe 324-325 -- was at Stanford and a friend of Mort’s

162-163 -- with Alice, left for Greece 325 Thompson, Virgil: composer friend of

Lou Harrison 443 Thurston, Jarvis A.: died Feb. 4, 2008

514 -- taught creative writing at Wash. Univ.

(St. Louis, MO) 113, 117-118, 123 Tilden High School (Brooklyn, NY) 25 Tinker, Carol (poet): mention 206 Tiryns, ruins of: Mort & Karen visited

333 Tito, Josip Broz: died in 1980 422-423 Tjampitjinpa, Dinny Nolan: photo:

group (Santa Cruz, 1991) 501 -- with Paddy Carrol Tjungurrayi: two

Australian Aboriginals toured California & Southwest 498-510

Tjungurrayi, Paddy Carrol: photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1991) 501

-- with Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa: two Australian Aboriginals toured California & Southwest 498-510

Tocqueville, Alex de: mention 116

Toporov, Yuri: of the Sopwith Camel Rock Group 206

Tor House: mention 204 -- photo (group, 2004) 203 -- poetry reading in Santa Cruz 136 Torres, Jose (Light-Heavyweight Boxing

Champion) 143 Trakl, Georg: mention 300, 308 Tranströmer, Tomas: mention 300, 308 Trapp, Lynn: photo: with Anderson &

Marcus (New York, 2007) 568 Trilling, Lionel: mention 176 Tripolis traveler “Mayor of Chicago”:

Mort & Karen met him 335-337 Tripolis, Peloponnesus: Mort & Karen

visited 335-336, 341 Truffaut, François: film The Four

Hundred Blows/Les Mistons = [The Brats]: Les Quatre cents coups (Zenith International Film Corp./Janus, 1959) 141

Truman, Harry (President): mention 106 Tule Lake Relocation Center (Toulee):

mention (in poem: 138), 209 Turco, Lewis “Lew”: mention 129, 136 -- photo: Oswego, 1980s 136 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot) 121 -- Poem Permissions 588 -- Poems: “Burning the News” 137-138 -- The New Book of Forms a handbook of

poetics (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986): “the poet’s bible” of style 136

Twain, Mark: mention 118, 569, 580 Twayne’s anthology: Mid-Century

American Poets by John Ciardi (New York: Twayne, 1950) 112

Twenty Poems of Neruda and Viejo (“from Robert Bly’s Fifties Press”) 149, 300

U Ulewicz, Laura: mention 209-210, 218-

219 -- attended Marin County reading 304 -- read poetry at I - Thou Coffee Shop

with Steve Schwartz & Mort 219, 394 -- she was Jack Gilbert’s love 394



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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: invited Mort to read and conduct workshops for graduate students 318

University of California at Berkeley: -- free-speech movement started there

209 -- Popa would read at UCB 252 -- reading for Milosz arranged at UCB

245 -- recommended for graduate work by

Prof. Mei 155 -- Robin Magowan taught there 412 -- students protested U. S. military

bombing of Cambodia 252-254 -- Wheeler Hall: site of poetry reading at

Berkeley 237-238 -- Young grad. With honors 316 University of California at San Diego

mention 146 -- Australians gave performances 508-

509 University of California at Santa

Barbara: Gary Brown taught at UC Santa Barbara Art Dept. 276

University of California at Santa Cruz: mention 146

-- Bly & Mezey read at UCSC 303 -- Carter taught courtesy of James B.

Hall 289 -- College 5 (creative arts college) 289 -- Donna Mekis worked there 8 yrs.

372, 376 -- George Ow Jr. contributes 434 -- Griggs is a geologist at UCSC 328 -- Jana Marcus grad with Honors 360 -- Lynn Luria-Sukenick was host of

poetry reading at UCSC 395 -- Mort taught “Writers Off the Page” at

UC Extension 287, 382 -- Mort took classes in film history 475 -- Nate Mackey teaches there 561 -- Nick Galli is film production grad 528 -- opened (in 1965) 224 -- Popa would read at UCSC 246, 257 -- William Everson taught at UCSC 381 University of Crete: mention 356 Urdang, Constance (Mrs. Donald Finkel)

123-124 V

Valaoritis, Nanos: mention 204, 219-220

-- a Greek surrealist poet 163-164 -- attended Marin County reading 304 -- in regard to Cabrillo College poetry

series 227 -- Mort had greetings to deliver to

cultural dignitaries on behalf of Valaoritis 330-331

-- Mort was shown Greece by Nanos on his second trip 354

-- urged that Mort should travel to Europe 325-326

Valdez, Luis: Teatro Campesino: mention 210

Vallejo, César: mention 300, 302, 308 Van Allen, James: at Iowa, known for

the Van Allen Belt 144 Van Dyn, Mona: mention 118, 123 -- co-editor w/Jarvis A. Thurston of

Perspective 113 Vasiliev, A. A. (Aleksandr

Aleksandrovich): History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964, c1952) 339

Vaughan, Sarah (jazz vocalist): mention 79

Vecchione, Patrice: Territory of Wind: Poems (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Many Names Press, ©1998) 561

-- Writing and the spiritual life: finding your voice by looking within (Chicago: Contemporary Books, ©2001) 561

Victor, Thomas: photo credit (for p. 237) 584

Vietnam War: mention 163, 220, 254, 409, 460, 499

-- permeated meetings of the Artists’ Liberation Front and effected the good will of participants 208-209

-- Poems: “The Teeth Mother Naked at Last” (anti-Vietnam War poem) 303

-- Robert Bly’s resistance poetry against the Vietnam War (e.g.: Artists and writers protest against the war in Viet Nam) 301-302

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Vorst’s Century Sea Grille, NY: mention 177

W Wakowski, Diane: Mort, Donna & Diane

in backyard when earthquake struck at 5:04 p.m. 472

-- poet, had moved to Michigan before 1989 473

Walkabout Tour of California and the Southwest (aka “Wartilpa Kalipur-nangka”): mention 496

-- Anita Wilkins, Joe Stroud & Mort Marcus toured with two Aborigines 500-502

-- Chapter 48 is all about this tour 498-510

Walker, T. Mike: photo (group Santa Cruz, 1972) 227

War among Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians: in June 1989, Mort observed and predicted war 423

War in Croatia: 1991 to 1996 left indelible results 424

Wartilpa Kalipurnangka: (aka “The Walkabout Tour of California and the Southwest”) 498

-- Australian trip: mention 495-496 -- Chapter 48 is all about this tour 498-

510 Washington University (St. Louis, MO.)

mention 113-115, 117, 123, 144, 146, 475

Waters, Michael: mention 550 Watsonville, CA: mention 224, 364-365,

373, 435, 473-474, 484 -- Croatian community went to Cabrillo

for reading 248 -- Croatians immigrated to CA 418 -- Croatians were a concern of the State

Dept. during Popa’s visit to read poetry 245

Wearne, Alan (Australian poet): mention 494

Weber, Gary: photo credit (for p. 202) 584

Welles, Orson: mention in regard to Hearst Castle 361

West, Nathaniel: Day of the Locust (New York New Directions 1950) 319

-- Jim Houston’s discovery of West’s Day of the Locust 164

Westchester, NY: home of Mort, mother & step-father Larry 16, 31, 35-36, 41, 57, 62

Where The Oceans Cover Us: mention 280-281

-- Mort took the manuscript to Capra Press in Santa Barbara 275-276, 278

White (Air Force Lt. Col.): head of pre-Courts Martial 95, 109

White Pine Press mention 547 White Pony, The (by Robert Payne)

mention 147 White Rabbit Press, Berkeley, CA:

Graham Macintosh formerly of White Rabbit was now at Capra Press 276

Whitebeach, Terry (Tasmanian filmmaker & director): mention 498-499, 501-502, 505, 510

Whitehead, Alfred North: mention 144 Whitey (athletic counselor at camp):

mention 67 Whitman, Walt: mention 158-159, 202,

439, 580 -- Joseph Stroud saw Whitman’s

manuscript for “Leaves of Grass” at the Library of Congress 236

Whitney Museum (New York museum): mention 79

Wilbourne, Sara: asked Mort to write a dance idea, she was a dancer in a Tandy Beal Dance Company production 464-466

-- danced in Mort’s The Eight Ecstasies of Yaekio Iwasaki 467

-- photo: as Yaeko (Santa Cruz, 1984) 470

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1984) 469 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 457 Wilbur, Richard: mention 112, 132 Wilkes, Jenny: mention 416 -- and her husband, Bradley Smith -

mention 414 -- Bradley Smith & Mort visited

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Wilkins, Anita: “a fellow poet and Cabrillo colleague” 479, 481, 484

-- invited by Dave Purdy who also endorsed her request to have Mort & Joe Stroud 489

-- Joe Stroud & Mort Marcus were in Australia Mar. 89 495

-- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1990s) 483 -- with Joe Stroud & Mort Marcus:

three-week tour of Australia’s East coast for a poetry reading 489

-- wrote Terry Whitebeach 510 Wilkins, Kirby: mention (footnote, p.

43), 364 -- “Lucky Dog” - Kirby’s unpublished

novel 483-484 -- “what kind of guidance could Max

have given” to Mort 488 -- Chapter 46 Section on Kirby 479-488 -- fiction writer, Stanford U. grad, MA

from SFSU in Creative Writing, teaching credential from San Jose State U, taught at Sonora, CA 479-484

-- Jake, Kirby’s son’s brain damage 485 -- Joseph “Joe” Stroud brought Mort &

Kirby back together 485 -- King season (New York: Arbor House,

c1985) 482, 484 -- Mort & Joseph “Joe” Stroud were

buddies 479, 481-482 -- Mort introduced Kirby to Leonard

Gardner & Gina Berriault in SF 484 -- once divorced, Kirby married Anita

479, 481, 484 -- photo: group (Santa Cruz mountains,

2007) 486 -- photo: group (Santa Cruz, 1990s) 483 -- photo: Santa Cruz, 1990 479 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 457 -- Quantum Web (New York: H. Holt,

c1990) 482, 484 -- Vanishing (Watsonville, Calif.:

Blackwell Press, 1984) 482, 484 -- was head of the English Dept. at

Cabrillo College 484 -- with Anita: divorced, remarried,

moved to Menlo Park 485

-- with Anita: Mort & Donna Marcus visited Kirby & Anita in Watsonville 484

Willamette College: mention 204 Williams, Sandra: at Mount Hood,

Oregon 477 Williams, William Carlos: mention 113 Wilma (see Kantrowich, Wilma see also

Marcus, Wilma Wilmerding, Jellis: Mention in regard to

Lick-Wilmerding High School 198 Wilson, Robert: mention 367 Winters, Yvor: In Defense of Reason.

Primitivism and Decadence: a Study of American Experimental Poetry (New York: Swallow Press & W. Morrow and Co., 1947) 155, 158

-- Stanford writing program: mention 190

-- was a “literary dictator” at Stanford University 158-159

-- Winters Fellowship at Stanford 155 Wiseman, Christopher: mention 129 Witter Bynner Prize 2005: awarded to

Joseph Stroud 236 Wong, Jade Snow: Deng Ming-Dao’s

mother was potter & author 452 -- Fifth Chinese Daughter is her

autobiography (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989) 452

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship: Mort Marcus won Fellowship 154, 158, 167

Woodstock: mention: held two years after “First Be - In” 211

World War II: mention 18, 21, 24, 77, 106, 138, 142, 147, 165, 171, 199, 251, 259, 296, 303, 325, 414, 423, 487, 553

Wright, James “Jim”: mention 308, 564 X Xydis, Stephen George (used as Steven

X.): to prep for travel Mort reviewed Greece and the Great Powers by Steven George Xydis (Greece and the Great Powers, 1944-1947; prelude to the "Truman doctrine." Thessaloniki, Institute for Balkan Studies, 1963) (aka Stephanos G. Xydis) 325



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Xylocol: mention 348 Y Yeats, William Butler: mention 199,

571 Yeshiva in San Francico: Calif. Labor

Council investigated violations 188 -- Mort arrived in San Francisco in

1964, taught history & English at a yeshiva 184

-- Shapiro (Mr.): yeshiva fundraiser 186-188

-- “The Yeshiva Incident” 186-189 Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Aleksandrovich: at Marin Writers Conference at gym 195-196

Yi-pao, Mei (Professor at University of Iowa): mention 449, 451, 514

-- most influence on Mort Marcus; Mort asked him if he would admit him to study Chinese culture 146-149, 154-155

-- recommended University of California at Berkeley for graduate work, or Columbia Univ. 154

Young American Poets, The (The Young American Poets. Introduction by James Dickey. (Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1968): mention 301, 390

-- Mort’s poems selected for publication 220, 237, 244

-- reading of Young American Poets in Berkeley 458

Young, Al -- mention 476 -- “Al is truly a man of belles lettres”:

Mort Marcus 318 -- Bodies & soul: musical memoirs.

(Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1981) 318

-- Chapter 31: entirely about Al Young 313-319

-- Dancing: poems. (New York: Corinth Books, 1969) 313-319

-- Drowning in the sea of love: musical memoirs (Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, c1995) 318

-- graduate of UC Berkeley 316

-- Heaven: collected poems, 1956-1990. (Berkeley, California: Creative Arts Book Co., 1992) 319


-- interviewed by Ray Gonzalez for “A Lyrical Legacy” Mort’s piece published in Bloomsbury Review 319

-- introduced Mort to Don Ellis at Creative Arts Books 318

-- master-of-ceremonies at reading in Memorial for Kenneth Patchen at City Lights Poetry Theater in SF 313-314


-- Mort analyzes Al’s writing 315-319 -- Mort interviewed Young for local

weekly Metro and it became a mini-biography: Seduction by Light was its focus 319

-- Mort read with Young and 40+ poets in support of those who participated in the Native American takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969 313-319

-- named Poet Laureate of California, 2005 319

-- photo: group photo (Santa Cruz, 1990s) 483

-- photo: Mort’s wedding day, Santa Cruz, 1986) 376

-- photo: Santa Cruz, 1996 314 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot iii, 267 -- Poem Permissions 588 -- Poems: “A Little More Traveling

Music” by Al Young 317-318 -- responsible for getting Mort’s

Shouting Down the Silence published (Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Co., c2002) 318

-- Seduction by Light: was the focus of Mort’s interview of Al Young for local weekly Metro and it became a mini-biography 319

-- Seduction by light (New York: Delta Fiction, c1988) 316

-- Sitting Pretty: a novel (Berkeley: Crea-tive Arts Book Co, 1986, c1976.) 316

-- Things ain’t what they used to be: musical memoirs (Berkeley, Calif.:



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Creative Arts Book Company, 1987) 318

-- was Mort’s first guest on KUSP Radio poetry show 319

-- wrote blurb for Mort’s Moments Without Names 318

Young, Gary: mention 204, 541, 560, 561

-- and Stephen Kessler hosted a poetry show on KUSP after 1989 Earthquake 478

-- Gary purchased George Hitchcock’s Santa Cruz Mountains house 543

-- his poems are autobiographical 544 -- No other life; foreword by Peter

Johnson.(Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday books, c2005) 544

-- photo: Santa Cruz, 2004 543 -- photo: thumbnail snapshot 511 -- photo: Tor House (Carmel, 2004) 203 -- Poem Permissions 588 -- Poems: untitled selections from “No

Other Life” 543-545 -- was student of Bill Everson’s at UC

Santa Cruz 543 -- won the prestigious William Carlos

Williams Award for 2002 for his No Other Life 544

Young, Lester (jazz musician): mention 79

Young, Noel (of Capra Press): mention 360, 539

-- Bruce & Marcia McDougal were related to Noel 277

-- got together with Jim Houston as a result of the Capra Press connection 293

-- met with Raymond Carver at Swanton Corn Roast 293

-- senior printer for Capra Press 276 -- Young knew Thomas Sanchez in

Santa Barbara 305 Young, Peggy: photo credit (for p. 453)

584 Young, William “Uncle Billy” (Al Young’s

uncle): mention 316 Younger, Floyd (Vice President of

Cabrillo College): mention 224

Z Zhuangzi: mention 448, 553, 569 -- Mort’s favorite writers cited in portion


Zimansky, Curt: mention 150 Zonar’s Restaurant: mention 354 -- Mort met Odysseus Elytis for coffee at

Zonar’s, a fancy restaurant on Amelia Ave, Athens 331

Zossima (Father): Mort remembered Father Zossima from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov 358

Documents

Striking Thru the Masks Index - phren-z.orgphren-z.org/documents/Striking Thru the Masks Index.pdf · point for Mort and Vasko Popa 246 Beatles: mention xv -- debuted on the Ed Sullivan