This piece is part of our Fall 2019 print issue.
Fred Marchant is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Said Not Said (Graywolf Press). Marchant is also the editor of Another World Instead (Graywolf), a selection of early poems by William Stafford. He is co-editor with Jennifer Barber and Jessica Greenbaum of Tree Lines (Grayson Press), an anthology of contemporary American poems focused on trees and forests. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including the Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing)), poems about illness and resilience. A co-translator (with Nguyen Ba Chung) of several contemporary Vietnamese poets, Marchant lives in Arlington, MA.
