A Duration

In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodiesâEUR"animal, plant, mineral, and word bodiesâEUR"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 attentionâEUR"be it to a line spoken by LearâEUR(TM)s Fool, a train to Kingston, or  âEURœred inside green stem below eight white petals in a spiral with space between them attached to the yellow centerâEUR?âEUR"into mesmerizing trajectories through an always unfolding present. In the collapse of the border between writing and the body, A Duration, âEURœplay[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy.âEUR?