{"product_id":"a-companion-paperback-1","title":"A Companion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Meier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this new collection of poem-essays, poet Richard Meier continues his inquiry into daily writings (first presented in 2023, \u003ci\u003eA Duration\u003c\/i\u003e), exploring the connections between days, moving forward and backward through time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComposed 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Meier\u003c\/b\u003e has published five books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eA Duration\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2023), \u003cem\u003eFebruary March April April\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxeye Press, 2017), \u003cem\u003eIn the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.8 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47327610470649,"sku":"9798891060159","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/vD6Gyev489798891060159_cffb433a-68d5-4947-acf8-5106bb1155cd.webp?v=1769581350","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-companion-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}