{"product_id":"a-companion-9798891060159","title":"A Companion","description":"\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798891060159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.91w x 0.47d","brand":"Richard Meier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187033071797,"sku":"9798891060159","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_51943aa5-7f10-424d-9611-20e51f3d473c.jpg?v=1742271142","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-companion-9798891060159","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}