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, A Duration, "play[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy."
| ISBN: | 9781950268788 |
| Publication date: | 20th July 2023 |
| Author: | Richard Meier |
| Publisher: | Wave Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 109 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets |
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, A Duration, "play[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy."
A Duration features in the following genres: Poetry, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets
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A Duration was written by Richard Meier and published by Wave Books
A Duration has 109 pages
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