{"product_id":"9781555973117","title":"Full Moon Boat : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFull Moon Boat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Fred Marchant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eFull Moon Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These poems break open the heart, so we can weep in compassion for all our lives. Fred Marchant teaches and awakens the soul. The reader will finish \u003ci\u003eFull Moon Boat\u003c\/i\u003e an enlightened being.” —\u003ci\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There's a wonderfully wide, essential music here in the voice of Fred Marchant, a fluency of spirit, both delicate and firm. 'I was pure listening in training' he writes, in the remarkable 'African Violents,' and that, in fact, is precisely the spirit of listening conveyed to readers--open-hearted, full-bodied, deeply sung.” —\u003ci\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I love the luminous, tough integrity that distinguishes these poems as they move--buoyant and perfectly balanced--between their given and chosen worlds. In its lyrically plain-voiced, honest cadences, \u003ci\u003eFull Moon Boat\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare thing, a book of wisdom.” —\u003ci\u003eEamon Grennan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555973117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593465311438,"sku":"9781555973117","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_0b40aa29-c605-462b-b825-1499a6e34fe9.jpg?v=1637788663","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555973117","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}