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“To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant’s work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his unflinching, delicate tone.” —The Journal

house that floats

on a muddy river in spring-time flood,

house like a human head on the surface,

house with a boy’s face, turned up.

—from “House on Water, House in Air”

In The Looking House—Fred Marchant’s new collection of poems—the poet lays out a map of human suffering, from wars within the psyche to wars that rage across the contemporary ...

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Overview

“To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant’s work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his unflinching, delicate tone.” —The Journal

house that floats

on a muddy river in spring-time flood,

house like a human head on the surface,

house with a boy’s face, turned up.

—from “House on Water, House in Air”

In The Looking House—Fred Marchant’s new collection of poems—the poet lays out a map of human suffering, from wars within the psyche to wars that rage across the contemporary landscape. These intense, innovative lyrics stir and disturb, remaining aware of the way history bears down upon us and makes us responsible for the consequences of our choices. Marchant maps the shelters, the “precarious places” that give us refuge and “teach us everything.” Such a place might be an open window at midnight in childhood, or the broken sill of a deserted hut on the coast of Donegal. In these poems a “looking house” can just as easily be a locked ward, a barracks, a movie theater at midday, or that room in Rome where Keats lay dying. These poems may show us a broken world, but they also offer glimpses of survival and renewal, of trust and reconnection.

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Marchant remains best known for his poems against war: he left the Marines as a conscientious objector, the first officer to do so during the Vietnam War. Marchant (Tipping Point) remembers in this third book how his service troubled him and registers his dissent from more recent wars in energetic lines. He devotes more space, though, to more general lessons: "like the squirrels in the pine," he writes, "I would teach my heart how to be a heart." Marchant has long cherished connections to Ireland and to Irish poetry: "I loved the sweet silence of hay as it cured" on an Irish farm, he says, "and the labor too,/ the mowing and tossing,// letting grass breathe itself dry." Like William Stafford-the influential American pacifist poet, whose poems Marchant edited-Marchant can see himself as a spiritual teacher, recording his struggles to set an example: he is most interesting when those struggles fail, and the poems present not wisdom but frustration-at the senseless illness of his sister, at nature ("the whorl of planets, a gristly wheel of trees"), at "the frantic,/ grinding inability to attend/ to anything but sere thwarting/ of yourself." (June)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555975289
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press
  • Publication date: 5/26/2009
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 88
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Fred Marchant is the author of Full Moon Boat. During the American war in Vietnam, he was one of the first marine officers ever to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. He directs the Poetry Center and teaches at Suffolk University in Boston.

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