A Duration

Years in the making, A Duration comprises an intimate collection of poem essays that not only speak from a sense of sorrow but also delineate the act of writing as a lived experience.

Here, in his fourth book, Richard Meier shares a bricolage of his daily practices of attention-be it to a line of Basho, to a train to Kingston, or to a red inside green stem below eight white petals in a spiral with space between them attached to the yellow center. Generous in their articulations and mesmerizing in their trajectories, these lines feel like a protracted journey through the eternal present. As such, A Duration is timeless-both free from a conventional understanding of time and, nevertheless, enduring.