A Companion

A CompanionDescription Reviews In this new collection of poem essays, poet Richard Meier continues his inquiry into daily writings (first presented in 2023's 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

and sincere longing

Full of the peculiarity and wit characteristic of Ruefle’s work

both intensely personal and insistently communal

In the spring

to make ourselves new—to rearrange our ideas

weird experience

ISBN# 9781933517735 (6x8

Instead I visited the spaces that the poet inhabits

Copy is a prose poem sequence that insinuates an experience of violent removal: a person’s disappearance from a country

If you want to know how an early 21st-century lyric poem gets made

or the name of the street they live on

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