Bruce Bond is the author of 35 books including, most recently, Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021), Behemoth (New Criterion Prize, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner, 2022), Choreomania (MadHat, 2023), Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), Therapon (with Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo), and Vault (Richard Snyder Award, Ashland), plus two books of criticism Immanent Distance (UMI, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019). Among his forthcoming books are Lunette (Wishing Jewel Prize Editor's Selection, Green Linden), The Silent Conversation (Vern Rutsala Prize Editor's Selection, Cloudbank), and The Dove of the Morning News (Test Site Poetry Award, U of NV).

Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
December 13, 2022:   "Lorca" "You hear it best where the key turns minor..."
June 3, 2022:   "Fable 6," "In the season of our isolation, we placed a brain in a jar on a table..."
September 13, 2021:   "Monkey" "Once upon a time, there was a story..."
April 22, 2021:   "Snow Burial" "Snow falls through the radio, and the news is mostly white..."
March 11, 2021:   "The Facebook Elegies" "Easy to see, when Robin Williams died, why..."
September 25, 2020:   "Narcissus in the Underworld 7" "Last night a ghost came to me and said..."
July 30, 2020:   "[The passports of the tombstones]" "The passports of the tombstones..."
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" "So tell me about your childhood..."
January 20, 2020:   "Lumen" "The dry cleaner's dumpster, the luminol, the glove..."
December 16, 2019:   "Yah" "You can hear the tremor of the ouds of ancient Morocco..."
May 30, 2017:   "Ventriloquist" "It started with a doll, a woman..."
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" "So when I arrived in hell, the sign said..."
October 27 2015:   "Trinity" "Small things have a different logic to them...."
November 17, 2015:   "Smetana" "When an ear creates its own private pitch..."
August 28, 2014:   "The Abyssal Plain" "Here beneath the last revenant of light..."
December 5, 2013:   "Shame" "When a boy passes out drunk at a party..."
May 16, 2013:   "Words Against the Walls of the City" "Night loves a ladder...."
March 21, 2013:   "What the Given Says to the Made" "How odd the ordinary birds that praise..."
March 16, 2012:   "Homage to the Left Hand" "Not the south paw of the left..."
September 1, 2011:   "Arrows" "Every thrill in us creates unease..."
September 9, 2010:   "Empire of Light" "It's the lantern that we look to most..."
April 17, 2009:   "Sand" "So many grains, so many little tombs..."
July 24, 2008:   "Tuning Fork" "Lynchpin of the singing wheel..."
June 26, 2008:   "Scar" "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
May 8, 2008:   "Will" "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
April 16, 2008:   "Elegy for Tim Buckley" "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
July 8, 2007:   "Confessions of a Music Box" " No larger than a bird coffin..."
August 25, 2006:   "Black Iris" " Dear guitar, my Cyclops, my raft..."
August 14, 2006:   "Planetarium" " As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib..."
April 18, 2004:  "The Ghost of Weather" "My father takes smaller steps..."
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" "The courthouse is empty now ablaze..."
October 12, 2002:  "The Chimneys" "After the fire the monoliths of brick..."
July 23, 2002:  "Mercy" "Dear happiness, forgive me..."

Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
"The Blue Marble, II"
"Lunette 15"
"The Blue Marble, I"
"Wind"
Two poems
"Witness"
"Frog"
"Curve"
Three poems
Three poems
"Frog"
"Curve"
Four poems
Four poems
Two poems
"Poison"
"The Lost Language 20"
Five poems
Five poems
Two poems
"Hunger"
"Mandolin"
Five poems
Four poems
"Elegy for the Last Man to Walk the Moon"
Two poems
Three poems
"In Memory of Jack Myers"
"Third Eye"
"The Birds of New Haven"
"Geppetto in Hell"
"Metaphysics of the Literal Heart"
"Water Burial"
Six poems
"Heaven's Gate"
"The Dead Zoo"
"The Tadpoles"
"The Tree of Forgetting"
Two poems
"Night Arrival"
"Shutter"
Five poems
"Pill"
"My Mother's Closet"
"Echolalia"
Two poems
"A Little History of Waves"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"
"Ringtone"
"Choir"
"Elegy"
"Thelonious Sphere Monk"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"

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Other poems by The Manhattan Review in Verse Daily:
February 12, 2024:   "Three-Years-out-of-College-Laundromat-Late-Sunday-Afternoon Blues" by Baron Wormser
February 27, 2023:   "Roe Stag" by Pascale Petit
February 23, 2023:   "A Guest of War" by Oksana Maksymchuk
February 22, 2023:   "Carriers" by D. Nurkse
January 6, 2022:   "Our Winter" by D. Nurkse
December 13, 2021:   "Self as Last Call" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
December 10, 2021:   "A Secret Passage" by D. Nurkse
December 6, 2021:   "A Political Moment" by Barry Wallenstein
February 20, 2021:   "Conspiracy Of Starlight" by D. Nurkse
February 18, 2021:   "Imagining Georgia O'Keeffe at Her Ghost Ranch" by Judith Wilkinson
February 17, 2021:   "Blues in a Turn of Season" by Joannie Stangeland
July 22, 2019:   "Lieu de Coiffure Mémoire" Angie Estes
February 24, 2019:   "Inmost Circle" D. Nurkse
February 16 2016:   "To Avoid a White Day" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
February 14, 2016:   "Half-Finished Houses" by D. Nurkse
June 9, 2010:   "Starlings" by Roddy Lumsden
June 7, 2010:   "Syntax" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
April 23, 2009:   "Echoing Canto of the Gleaners (Inferno)" by John Kinsella
April 19, 2009:   "Sunday Morning" by Kathryn Simmonds
April 18, 2009:   "Isle Au Haut" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
April 17, 2009:   "Sand" by Bruce Bond
March 13, 2008:   "Coligny" by D. Nurske
March 11, 2008:   "Canto of the Workshop" by John Kinsella

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