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The Long Now by James Meetze

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Matte Paperback, 150 Pages

Linen Bound Hardcover with Glossy Cover Jacket, 160 Pages LIMITED PRINT RUN

Cover Image: Image/space or Performing the Surface archive print on dbond, 80x60 cm (2023) by Igor Eskinja.

In this visionary work, James Meetze deepens his investigation into time, language, & moral attention. Unfolding across forty interlinked sections, The Long Now tracks time at multiple scales—personal grief, political fracture, digital delirium, & the slow patience of stone—asking what it means to be present inside forces that exceed us. These poems are less attuned to prophecy than séance, less forecast than deep listening: an ear pressed to history’s pressure & intimacy’s cost.

Moving through clocks & ruins, screens & myth, daily labor & lyric fracture, Meetze treats language as both wound & instrument. Words falter, loop, shimmer, & bruise; yet they still cling to breath, memory, & the body. The sequence resists resolution in favor of orientation, testing love, work, masculinity, nation, ecology, & faith not for purity but for use. Haunted by futures it will never inhabit & pasts that refuse burial, The Long Now understands time as weather one learns by standing in it—& answers not with comfort, but with vigilance, abrasion, & a low, enduring chant.

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Matte Paperback, 150 Pages

Linen Bound Hardcover with Glossy Cover Jacket, 160 Pages LIMITED PRINT RUN

Cover Image: Image/space or Performing the Surface archive print on dbond, 80x60 cm (2023) by Igor Eskinja.

In this visionary work, James Meetze deepens his investigation into time, language, & moral attention. Unfolding across forty interlinked sections, The Long Now tracks time at multiple scales—personal grief, political fracture, digital delirium, & the slow patience of stone—asking what it means to be present inside forces that exceed us. These poems are less attuned to prophecy than séance, less forecast than deep listening: an ear pressed to history’s pressure & intimacy’s cost.

Moving through clocks & ruins, screens & myth, daily labor & lyric fracture, Meetze treats language as both wound & instrument. Words falter, loop, shimmer, & bruise; yet they still cling to breath, memory, & the body. The sequence resists resolution in favor of orientation, testing love, work, masculinity, nation, ecology, & faith not for purity but for use. Haunted by futures it will never inhabit & pasts that refuse burial, The Long Now understands time as weather one learns by standing in it—& answers not with comfort, but with vigilance, abrasion, & a low, enduring chant.

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