Marshall Motz, a vanishing breed, describing himself as poet-at-large, dabbled at being a Presbyterian Minister. His is the story of a long struggle with religious fundamentalism, beginning in the Bible Belt, before Jesus became a Republican—and ending (where else!) in California, where he finally gets “liberated.” He holds degrees in literature, philosophy and theology from such institutions as the University of California and Fuller Theological Seminary.
He lives at Arbor Cove in Santa Cruz, by a lazy lagoon, hard by a sewage plant.