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"In 1970 he was one of the first officers in the United States Marine Corps ever to be discharged honourably as a conscientious objector to the Viet Nam War, a fact that has shaped much of his life and poetry thereafter." -- back cover, House on Water, House in Air

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.