Writer-in-Residence Rick Meier on tour for new book: ‘A Duration’
He will give readings at Northwest Missouri State University; Typofest at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville; OK #1 Gallery in Tulsa, Okla.; and Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa.
A continuing volume, “A Companion,” will be published in 2024.
About “A Duration”
In the poem-essays that comprise “A Duration,” 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. Here, in his fifth book, Prof. 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, “A Duration” “play[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy.”
Sponsoring Department, Office, or Organization:
English Department
For more information, contact:
Rick Meier: rmeier@carthage.edu