Peal: Poems - Softcover

Bruce Bond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981968708 ISBN 13: 9780981968704

Publisher: Etruscan Press, 2009

Synopsis

In Bruce Bond’s seventh book, we see a sustained exploration of mortality and its embodiment in the consolations of beauty, most notably in music.

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About the Author

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand(U of MI, 2015), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way Books, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Poetry Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Frankenstein’s Children (2018) and Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018). Five books are forthcoming, including the critical book Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave). Other honors include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Award, River Styx International Poetry Award, Laurence Goldstein Poetry Award, the Allen Tate Award, the Natalie Ornish Best Book of Poetry Prize, the Colladay Award, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Knightville Poetry Award, the New South Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts. At UNT, he has received the Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching, the Toulouse Scholars Award, and the UNT Foundation's inaugural Eminent Faculty Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Etruscan Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981968708
• ISBN 13: 9780981968704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72