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Hardcover (Tan Linen Bound)
A contemporary & esoteric poetry collection presented in a refined tan linen hardcover, stamped with a gold foil title, & wrapped in a glossy cover design that gleams with quiet mysticism. Ivory pages lend an archival softness, grounding the book’s modern sensibility in a timeless ritual.
Paperback (Matte Cover)
This matte paperback offers an alternate vantage point of the hardcover’s design, inviting the reader into the same contemplative, esoteric terrain from a subtly shifted perspective. Its ivory pages preserve the tactile intimacy of the work in a more portable form.
*All pre-orders placed from January through February will arrive as a special bundled package: the book wrapped in black kraft paper, paired with a white beeswax taper candle & an incense stick of sage & sea inspired by the book’s atmosphere. Add the corresponding candle to your order to complete the immersive reading ritual.
“Vigil for Time” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
Inspired by The Long Now, this candle is an exercise in attention, a quiet ritual for standing inside time rather than escaping it. Bright Bergamot opens like a struck match, quickly giving way to the resinous calm of Sage & Palo Santo, their smoke threading through memory & breath. Cypress grounds the flame with forested depth, while nutmeg hums beneath the surface, warm & faintly unsettling.
Adorned with Sage & Oak Bark, each burn becomes a small act of orientation, a ward against distraction, & a companion for reading, writing, & connecting.
Scent Notes: Sage. Cypress. Palo Santo. Bergamot. Nutmeg.
Adorned with Sage & Oak Bark.
QUOTES ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Long Now is a bracing, radiant book—at once intimate and vast—alive to grief, love, history, and deep time. James Meetze writes with urgency and lyric force, moving from the body to the planetary with a rare musical intelligence. Bold, searching, and emotionally alive, these poems stay awake to the world as it breaks and remakes itself. The Long Now is a work of luminous attention—an invitation to remain awake inside history, to feel the weight of the moment, and to answer it with imagination, humility, and song.
—Peter Gizzi, author of Fierce Elegy
The Long Now shimmers into focus “in the hotel wifi air”, tripping on its (green) tongue, “waking now within / culture’s long slumber”. James Meetze’s new collection is a spiralling meteorology of temporality and temper, fog and fracture, hunger and home, want and wonder, memory and multiplicity. Here, we encounter the self as spectral accretion, as glittering through its milieu. Moving between inevitability and possibility; Meetze deals deftly in that “ambrosial oblivion of if”. There are runes, clocks and cards. Truth appears for a hot second as a tiny hidden crab. This is a work without a proper ending: “It will call you back / into your truest / openmost / uncanny / self.”
—Sabeen Chaudry, author of Rimming the Event Horizon
In The Long Now, James Meetze maps the oscillations of eros as an endless give-and-take, flickering between presence and absence across deep time. Meetze asks what it means to love, to be “twinned / and prismatic” at once. One feels the rigorous and attuned thinking-through that happens across these sequences as stunning syntactical suspension opens into diamond-hard aphorism. Between the point of “I sold the ring” and the point of “I hold the thread,” the beloved is always “one-time bride,” and wed across time-space. As it was for Ovid, change is Meetze’s theme. For now, he has changed that grand story to one in which the Orphic speaker and the beloved, forever caught between states, have found their thread.
—Richard Greenfield, author of Subterranean and A Carnage in the Lovetrees
