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Water,House in Air  \nThe Looking House  \nTIPPING POINT  \nBY  \nFRED MARCHANT  \nTWENTIE TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION  \nWinner of the 1993 Word Works Washington Prize  \nTHE WORD WORKSWASHINGTON,D.C.  \nSECOND EDITION,FIRST PRINTING  \n# Tipping Point\n\nCopyright ◎1993,2013 by Fred Marchant  \nReproduction of any part of this book in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,except when quoted in part for the purposeof review,must be with permission in writing from the publisher inwriting.Address inquiries to:  \nThe Word Works,PO Box 42164,Washington,DC 20015wordworksbooks.org·editor@wordworksbooks.org  \nCover art:Nona Hershey,\"Profile,\"1986,etching  \nAuthor photograph:Stefi Rubin  \nBook design:Susan Pearce Design  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number:2012950826  \nInternational Standard Book Number:978-0-915380-86-2.  \nA number of these poems(or earlier versions of them)have appeared inthe following:AGNI:“Boraxo,”“Hospital Food,”\"Rescue,”\"Wartime,”“Whiskey\";America:“Mayan Figures in Stone”;Aspect:“BaptismalPhotograph”;The Boston Phoenix:“Magnification”;The Boston Review:\"Butterfly Chair\"”;Bristlecone:“Demby in the River”;ConnecticutPoetry Review:\"State Lines,\"\"“Vietnam Era”;Ellipsis:\"DirectionsDown”;Gettysburg Review:“Bristlecone”;Harvard Review:“Song ofthe Stomach,”“Tipping Point,”\"The Afterlife on Squaw Peak”;PoetryNorthwest:“Minotaur\";Ploughshares:“Walden,”“Lazarus,”\"Stillnessin South Carolina”;Southern Humanities Review:“Herons”;TampaReview:“C.O.”;Worcester Review:“Certain Obliquities,and Then Loss”;Yankee:\"Lines After Buson.\"  \nMy thanks to the MacDowell Colony,the Ucross Foundation,and Yaddofor residencies during which this book was completed.I would also liketo thank the Suffolk University College of Arts and Sciences for ongoingsupport.I am deeply grateful to those friends and teachers whosecareful readings helped bring this book into being.My gratitude to myeditor,Barbara Goldberg,is present on every page in this book.Finally,I want to express abiding thanks to Karren Alenier and Nancy White,and to the many others who have given so much to The Word Works,Inc.and its authors.  \nfor Stefi  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction by Nick Flynn9Directions Down12Baptismal Photograph17Whiskey18The Foot of the Mountain19Magnification21Butterfly Chair22Boraxo23Backrub24Vietnam Era25Song of the Stomach26Elephants Walking31  \nII  \nC.O.34Malebolge36Tipping Point40State Lines45Minotaur46Sunday,After a Storm48Stillness in South Carolina49Demby in the River50Roger Williams,his Key into the Language of America51Mayan Figures in Stone52Lazarus54  \nIII  \n55  \nHerons  \nIV  \nWartime59Lines After Buson71Rescue72Hospital Food73Walden74Certain Obliquities,and Then Loss75Bristlecone76Starlight Mints77Loose Ends82Red's Meadow85The Afterlife on Squaw Peak86About the Author/Artist89  \nV  \nAbout The Word Works  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