Böcker av Richard Meier

In this moving, heart-tugging memoir, Richard, a 23-year-old white man, tells the story of his first true love, Ellen, a 21-year-old black woman. They met in 1967 at Baha'i Convention in Chicago. At that time interracial marriage was a rare occurrence and their struggle to build a relationship is heightened by the opposition from his parents. And they struggle, in turn, with their unaware racism and love for their son. As one friend of Richard's put it, " your memoir brings it all to heart-wrenching life. How eloquent your parents were in magnificently intertwining their deep love for you with their deep prejudice, which they truly believed to be righteous. [You show the] fears your mom had and how subtle her shaming of you was. I think it is so sad how your young and tender hearts were broken. You two would have had a grand life because of your steadfastness and straight path."

"A collection of poem essays by Richard Meier"--

In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary pushes past the line and the fragment and toward the sentence, the thought trying to complete, the paragraph, a distinct passage.

Richard Meier's second collection, Search Party, looks at our experiences of being lost to others, as well as lost from ourselves.

The uncompromising idealism and beauty of Romantic poetry reclaimed and redirected for a contemporary audience.

Provides an history of the planning, design, and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the great cultural complexes. This book takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.

Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard Meier's first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier's poems are often deceptively quiet in their address, the reader will soon discover a poet capable of illuminating the darkest corners of our lives by the very lightest of touches, and an ear simultaneously attuned to the lyric poem and the cadence of real speech. The collection also contains some disarmingly tender poetry on the experience of fatherhood. Misadventure is about all the hope and hopelessness lurking just below the surface of things, in our rooms, tables, coats and gardens - and leaves them enriched and strange, under the transforming eye of a fine new talent.