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Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of 37 books including, most recently, Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo, 2024), Vault (Richard Snyder Award, Ashland, 2024), Lunette (Wishing Jewel Prize Editor’s Selection, Green Linden, 2024), and The Dove of the Morning News (Test Site Poetry Award, U of NV, 2024).  Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

 

  • Purge

    The Aryan Jesus, in Hitler’s painting

  • Lunette 15

    I came into the world through a wound

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I said goodbye to a friend who left a hole filled

  • Fable 7, 8 & 9

    I knew a boy with swastikas on his sneakers. I never knew the story.

  • Oracle, Mallarmé & Stone

    A broken rib could be the sign

  • Guitar & Lantern

    The boy with prosthetic limbs is the flame

  • Skin and Arioso

    I am sending off my blood for the story of who I am.

  • Book of Dolls

    The psychoanalyst has left the building

  • The Call |Palm

    You and I, we have been here before.

  • Wozzeck | Casualty

    Even the toneless whisper finds its cradle, its home,

  • Contagions of the Visible

    In the optics of the dark ages, the eye

  • SOLILOQUY OF A TORNADO IN THE DISTANCE

    I knew a girl once