by Fred Marchant Euphrates go little stream of words flow down from the misery work in and under the rubble around us and find those who managed to come back alive relief starting to mingle with disgust how it rises that disgust like bile how the heart starts to feel soft and puffy as a […]
Author: Fred Marchant
Fred Marchant is the author of, most recently, Said Not Said (2017), a Massachusetts Book Awards “Honored Book”. Earlier books include The Looking House, Full Moon Boat, and House on Water, House in Air. His first book,Tipping Point, won the 1993 Washington Prize. Marchant has translated Vietnamese poets Tran Dang Khoa and Vo Que, and edited Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, featuring Stafford’s writing as a World War II conscientious objector. In 1970, while serving on Okinawa during the Vietnam War, Marchant himself was one of the first officers to be honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps as a conscientious objector. An emeritus professor of English, he is the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center in Boston. He has won the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, given to poets “whose work is an inspiration to other writers.”