Full Moon Boat Poems

Fred Marchant

ISBN 10: 1555973116 / ISBN 13: 9781555973117

Published by Graywolf Press, 2000

About this Item

Faint rubbing to covers ; Signed by the author, 1st edition, 1st printing . ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.3 inches; 82 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 7800

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Full Moon Boat Poems
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555973116
• ISBN 13: 9781555973117
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

In 1970, during the war in Viet Nam, Marchant became one of the first Marine officers ever to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. In the poems contained in Full Moon Boat, Marchant explores the concept of violence: What are its origins and consequences? What actions of the heart and mind resist it? Marchant takes us on a voyage from childhood to adult trauma, and eventually to a peace arrived at by unflinching meditation. A hard-won peace, it is our undiscovered country.

About the Author

Fred Marchant is the author of Tipping Point, which won the Washington Prize in poetry. He is a professor of English and the director of creative writing at Suffolk University in Boston, and he is a teaching affiliate of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.