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Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of thirty books including, most recently, Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), Scar (Etruscan, 2020), Behemoth (New Criterion Prize, Criterion Books, 2021), The Calling (Parlor, 2021), Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Nicholas Shaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner Press, 2022), and Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2022).

 

  • 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