Thomas Meyer on Wordplay

Thomas Meyer has long been one of a handful of my contemporaries whose work I totally admire — as readers of Nomadics will know. I was therefore very pleased & excited when the following email came from Jeff Davis:
“When Lisa Jarnot heard Thomas Meyer read his new work in Hickory last fall, she said simply ‘That’s a great poem’.This week Meyer, author of At Dusk Iridescent, The Bang Book, Staves Calends Legends, Sappho’s Raft, and Coromandel, among other titles, translator of the daodejing, reads that new work on Wordplay.”
The program note, complete with link to the audio, is here:
Enjoy.
Jeff”
Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux