Poetry by Morton Marcus
December 1, 1988 6 x 9 144 pages 978-0-918273-47-5
Fifty-six narrative poems tell the story of the authors familys migration from Czarist Russia to the United States.
Morton Marcuss Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants tells the story of his familys life in Czarist Russia and in America. The tale unfolds in a series of fifty-six accessible and engaging narrative poems. Each poem is a separate work, but when joined with the others, they forms a continuous narrative of one familys struggle to survive, both physically and spiritually, in two alien cultures. Filled with humor and pathos, the poems deal with all areas of the human condition in attempting, as Yeats said, to come/into the desolation of reality that is peculiarly American.