Tipping Point (20th Anniversary Edition) - Softcover

Marchant, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915380862 ISBN 13: 9780915380862

Publisher: Word Works, 2013

Synopsis

With his deft and timeless blend of the lyrical and narrative, Fred Marchant explores the wars inside us and the ones we wage in the world: spiritual, familial, political. Says Tom Sleigh, "In the spirit of Wilfred Owen, Tipping Point is a book seared by personal and historical fact." This 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Nick Flynn, celebrates what Sven Birkerts calls, "the larger contexts in which our deeds and gestures come to matter." Flynn concludes, "Tipping Point arrives, twenty years or two thousand years later, eternal and utterly ever-present."

About this title

About the Author

Fred Marchant is a Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, where he is the founding director of the Creative Writing Program and the Poetry Center. In 1970, he became one of the first officers of the US Marine Corps to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector in the Vietnam war, and his book TIPPING POINT (The Word Works 1993 and 2013) springs from his experiences during that time. His other books include Full Moon Boat (Graywolf Press, 2000), The Looking House (Graywolf Press, 2009), and House on Water, House in Air (The Dedalus Press, 2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Word Works
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915380862
• ISBN 13: 9780915380862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92