will be published by MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS in January 2003.  
She teaches philosophy at Cuesta College.

Close to the Shore
Poems by Jacqueline Marcus

"Jacqueline Marcus's Close to the Shore presents us with a poet whose
prodigious talents, uncanny emotional range, and (dare one say it?) profound
spiritual sympathies, have opened up a space in the human heart where every
thoughtful reader will feel welcome.  This is a poet of abundance and
wonder, a poet who reminds us that poetry is, in some very elemental way,
"the insistence of Form, / each note, an integration, / each note, a
prayer-wheel turning."

"An enormously powerful and accomplished poet.  Her poems all have
extraordinary authority and presence.  There is a grace to these poems that
always pleases, and an intelligence to their meditations that is always
compelling."

"Jacqueline Marcus's poems have all the suppleness and hesitation of thought
itself.  They wander through so many dimensions - philosophical, personal,
and political - on the way to a condition which, they seem to say, may or
may not exist, but which is nevertheless luminous, intelligent, and serene."

Jacqueline Marcus' poems have appeared in THE ANTIOCH REVIEW, THE KENYON REVIEW, THE OHIO REVIEW, THE LITERARY REVIEW, THE WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL, THE JOURNAL, POETRY INTERNATIONAL, HAYDEN’S FERRY REVIEW, COLLEGE ENGLISH, THE SYCAMORE REVIEW, THE SEATTLE REVIEW, 5AM, IRIS, APPALACHIA, THE MID-AMERICAN REVIEW, PASSAGES NORTH, ASCENT, SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, THE CIDER PRESS REVIEW, POET LORE, FAULTLINE, THREECANDLES.ORG, THE 1997 ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE & YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY, RED HEN ANTHOLOGY and a Chapbook from White Heron Press 1998.  She was a semifinalist in the Nation/Discovery 1997 Contest.

Online publications:  Exquisite Corpse, ThreeCandles, PoetryMagazine, Samsara Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review