Companion

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everyday life as art
Experimental
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Jane a Guitar
journal
lyrical
meditation
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mindfulness
modern poetry
presence
Shelley Gave
Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar
storytelling
time
Toma alamun
Verse Prize
writing practice

Product details

  • ISBN 9798891060159
  • Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Wave Books
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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In this new collection of poem-essays, poet Richard Meier continues his inquiry into daily writings (first presented in 2023,A Duration), exploring the connections between days, moving forward and backward through time.

Composed from daily writing practices and years of looping reductions and arrangements, this innovative work asks what it means to be in company. Accompanied in “this present tense that refuses no one” by an inter-generational cast of a nine-hour play, friends, strangers, trees, stones, animals, people in dreams and nightmares—and by readers of the book—Meier allows the present moment to widen and become a site of continuance: “unbranched, undivided, the whole movement of a whole body . . .free from the leaves of the grass and // revealed as a companion.”

Richard Meier has published five books of poetry: A Duration (Wave Books, 2023), February March April April (Oxeye Press, 2017), In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary (Omnidawn, 2012), Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar (Wave Books, 2006), and Terrain Vague, selected by Tomaz Salamun for the Verse Prize and published by Verse Press in 2001. In recent years he has practiced and taught workshops on writing and walking and other daily and durational writing practices. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Carthage College and lives in Somers and Madison, WI.

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