A Duration -- Richard Meier

<p><strong>Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier transmutes years of daily practices of attention into mesmerizing trajectories through an always unfolding present.</strong></p><p>In the poem-essays that comprise A DURATION, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies--animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies--that are injured and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new roles. Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier transmutes years of daily practices of attention--be it to a line spoken by Lear's Fool, a train to Kingston, or "red inside green stem below eight white petals in a spiral with space between them attached to the yellow center"--into mesmerizing trajectories through an always unfolding present. In the collapse of the border between writing and the body, <em>A Duration</em>, "play[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy."</p><p>"Though Meier...invokes the English Romantics, his techniques recall John Ashbery, pursuing a general failure of human speech to explain or arrest the fluid, always-disappointing world."--Publisher's Weekly</p><p>Poetry. Essay. Hybrid.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Richard Meier<br><b>Publisher:</b> Wave Books<br><b>Published:</b> 06/06/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 120<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.20lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.40d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781950268788<br><p><b>About the Author</b