Reviews of Full Moon Boat

“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 Full Moon Boat an enlightened being.” —Maxine Hong Kingston

 “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 Violets,’ and that, in fact, is precisely the spirit of listening conveyed to readers—open-hearted, full-bodied, deeply sung.”—Naomi Shihab Nye

“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, Full Moon Boat is that rare thing, a book of wisdom.”—Eamon Grennan