Meier, Richard: Terrain Vague

Poetry. The winner of the 2000 Verse Prize, selected by Tomaz Salamun who says, These poems are healing beads against grief and terror. The person imbued with them will stand a better chance to save himself from a territory even smaller than time. This arresting first book has both an urgency and inventiveness that compels the reader forward and through: The stunted pines elude capture/ in a thousand sidetracked increments./ The wind will never understand them./ Like us it is forced to go on (Terrain Vague).