Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays between Exile & Belonging

Fans of Debra Marquart’s landmark memoir, The Horizontal World, will rejoice over the publication of The Night We Landed on the Moon—shapeshifting essays that travel from the blizzardy Midwest to sweltering Siberia, from a flooding Michigan basement to the panic-inducing Paris Catacombs, from her life as a rebellious farmer’s daughter to hard rock musician to professor and poet laureate. Every page is full of story and insight, laced with wit, as Marquart meditates on the hungers of home and wanderlust, the way her Germans-from-Russia family is "preserved in their hyphenations," the poetic strangeness of basketball, the insidiousness of fracking boomtowns, and the ironies of a nostalgia called heimat. The individual essays are astonishing, the collection as a whole profound.” —K. L. Cook, author of Marrying Kind and The Art of Disobedience

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Debra Marquart is the Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment. A memoirist, poet, and performing musician, she is the author of seven books including her award-winning The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays between Exile & Belonging.

Marquart’s work has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received mor than fifty grants and awards, including an NEA Fellowship, a PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation, and Elle Magazine’s Elle Lettres Award. Marquart teaches in Iowa State University’s interdisciplinary MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment and in the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. In 2021, Marquart was awarded a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

You can keep up with her up-to-date activiities and awards by visiting her website at https://debramarquart.com

ISBN: 978-1-946163-36-3

Page count: 212

Hardcover

Publication Year: 2021

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