{"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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Meier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950268788","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439229276297,"sku":"9781950268788","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d33518fc-98d5-46b7-8ba1-61a01d54db3b.jpg?v=1715811071","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/a-duration-9781950268788","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}