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, 2023), and Vault (Richard Snyder Award, Ashland, 2023), 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 honors include the Crab Orchard Book Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the Tampa Review Book Prize, the Lynda Hull Award, the James Dickey Prize, the Meringoff Award, two TIL Best Book of Poetry awards, fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry.

Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
February 13, 2024:   "Ghost" "The guard dog at the wrecking yard, chained..."
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 Five Points in Verse Daily:
February 25, 2024:   "Abandon" by Jesse Lee Kercheval
February 23, 2024:   "Crematorium of Toys" "a chainsaw chewing silence, children..."
February 22, 2024:   "Crematorium of Toys" by Lewis Meyers
February 19, 2024:   "Covid Leads The Procession To Woodlawn Cemetery" by Cynthia Parker-Ohene
January 25, 2020:   "Grackle" by George Kalogeris
January 24, 2020:   "Errors of Beauty" by Ann Townsend
January 23, 2020:   "The Anchors Speak" by Terese Svoboda
May 2, 2019:   "'On the Bodies of Women'" Ina Conradie
April 29, 2019:   "Brother" Lisa Julie
September 2, 2016:   "Charolais" by John Kinsella
August 31, 2016:   "When I Had Died" by Cynthia Huntington
February 9, 2016:   "Funeral in Vermont" by Andrea Hollander
November 21, 2015:   "Ode to Chronic Insolvency" "I lived in an apartment..."
November 20, 2015:   "Ascension" by Philip Levine
March 31, 2015:   "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn
March 30, 2015:   "Passing Phase" by Stephen Dunn
November 9, 2013:   "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn
February 7, 2011:   "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010:   "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009:   "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009:   "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009:   "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007:   "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007:   "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007:   "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006:   "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005:   "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005:   "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005:   "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005:   "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005:  "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005:  "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005:  "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004:  "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003:  "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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