{"product_id":"a-duration-9781950268788","title":"A Duration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere, in his fifth book, Richard Meier transmutes years of daily practices of attention into mesmerizing trajectories through an always unfolding present.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eA Duration\u003c\/em\u003e, \"play[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Essay. Hybrid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Meier\u003c\/b\u003e's second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eShelley Gave Jane a Guitar\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Wave Books in 2006. His first book, \u003ci\u003eTerrain Vague\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by Tomaz Salamun for the Verse Prize and published by Verse Press in 2001. His book \u003ci\u003eIn the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Omnidawn in 2012. He is writer-in-residence at Carthage College and lives in Chicago, IL and Madison, WI.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554537148690,"sku":"9781950268788","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f32cb630-cb20-4e55-bc06-ad5c5eabcfcb.jpg?v=1731719074","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-duration-9781950268788","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}