{"product_id":"a-duration-9781950268788","title":"A Duration","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the poem-essays that comprise \u003ci\u003eA Duration\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, 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, \u003ci\u003eA Duration\u003c\/i\u003e, \"play[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45138019680407,"sku":"9781950268788","price":849.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781950268788.webp?v=1768542803","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-duration-9781950268788","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}