Cicada
Fred Marchant, “Cicada” from The Looking House. Copyright © 2009 by Fred Marchant. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org
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Poet Fred Marchant
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Living, Disappointment & Failure, Relationships, Nature, Animals, Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Metaphor
Biography
Fred Marchant's most recent book of poetry, The Looking House (Graywolf Press, 2009) was named by Barnes & Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry in 2009. The San Francisco Chronicle picked it as one of the ten best collections of poetry, and the Massachusetts Book Award committee listed as one of the “must reads” of the past year. Janette Currie, writing in Pleiades, has written that “Marchant’s great achievement . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Disappointment & Failure, Relationships, Nature, Animals, Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Metaphor
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