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Marc J. Straus is the author of 4 poetry collections, 3 from Tri-Quarterly Northwestern University Press. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Robert Penn Warren Award in the Humanities from Yale. His poems have appeared in most of the leading literary journals in the U.S. He is an oncologist and former Chairman of Oncology and Professor of Medicine. He has authored some 100 scientific papers and edited three textbooks on lung cancer. He is the recipient of Boston’s Young Leader Award previously given to John F. Kennedy. Marc, and his wife Livia, have been avid collectors of contemporary art since age 20, focusing on new discoveries. Their collection has now had eleven museum exhibits and they are listed among the top collec ...more

NOT GOD: A Production at the Black Box Theater at HV MOCA

NOT GOD, A Staged Reading at Studio Theater in Exile’s Black Box Theater at Hudson Valley MOCA

Saturday, November 12th at 7PM & Sunday, November 13th at 3PM

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NOT GOD evokes the delicate bond between a doctor struggling with limitations and a patient in search of clarity and dignity. The play, in poetry, was written by renowned poet and writer, Marc J. Straus, re

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One-Legged Mongoose: Secret...

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Not God: A Play in Verse

3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Symmetry: Poems

3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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One Word: Poems

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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Disorders of the Heel, Rear...

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Lung Cancer: Clinical Diagn...

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“I root for the Indians. I saw a movie about Custer's Last Stand. Really, he was stupid for underestimating Chief Sitting Bull and he deserved to lose.”
Marc J. Straus

“My hands are blurs punching left-right-left. Even if I get hit it will do no good - I won't feel it. You have no chance with someone like me. No chance. I am invincible.”
Marc J. Straus

“I can picture it. Dad running like a deer and three men with guns being chased by an unarmed small dark Jew.”
Marc J. Straus

“There is no excuse when you lose. It doesn't matter to anyone if you had polio and were stuck in bed for six weeks.”
Marc J. Straus

“But you a Whitebread who not be afraid."
"No, I'm not afraid," I say, most truthfully, now wondering if I came this way hoping for a fight.”
Marc J. Straus

“I once mistook a kid for someone else, so he got one beating he shouldn't have, but that's not so bad.”
Marc J. Straus

“As she raises the strap even higher, I face her stiffly. I have never turned away. I can't recall ever crying and I won't cry today.”
Marc J. Straus

“My hands are blurs punching left-right-left. Even if I get hit it will do no good - I won't feel it. You have no chance with someone like me. No chance. I am invincible.”
Marc J. Straus

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