A Duration

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In the poem-essays that comprise A Durationin bodiesanimal, plant, mineral, and word bodiesthat 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 attentionbe it to a line spoken by Lears 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 centerinto 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.

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Richard Meiers second book of poetry, Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar, was published by Wave Books in 2006. His first book, Terrain Vague, was selected by Toma alamun for the Verse Prize and published by Verse Press in 2001. His book In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary was published by Omnidawn in 2012. He is writer-in-residence at Carthage College and lives in Chicago, IL and Madison, WI.