About Bruce Bond and Colorado Review

Today's poem is "Yah"

from Colorado Review

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books, including Gold Bee (Helen Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award), Sacrum (Four Way Books), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (Phillabaum Award, LSU), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize), Dear Reader (FVE), and Frankenstein's Children (Lost Horse).
Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
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..." br>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..."
Books by Bruce Bond:

Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
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"
Bruce Bond according to Wikipedia.
About Colorado Review:

About Colorado Review:

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Poetry Editors: Donald Revell * Sasha Steensen * Matthew Cooperman

All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
April 24, 2019: "Nuthatches" Laura Paul Watson
April 23, 2019: "Confiteor" Brianna Noll
April 22, 2019: "Later, I Learned to Speak Without a Tongue." Lisa Allen Ortiz
March 15, 2019: "Flesh Memory" Caroline Crew
March 13, 2019: "Gaslight" E. G. Cunningham
March 12, 2019: "As Weapons Need Murder" Melissa Ginsburg
June 9, 2015: "Interval" by William Stobb
June 8 2015: "Thou" by Joshua McKinney
January 19, 2015: "A Month of Sundays" by Terrence Chiusano
January 13, 2015: "Annunciation" by Ronnie Yates
July 7, 2014: "Backward-Spreading Brightness" by Christopher Kondrich
March 5, 2014: "In the Dumps" by Heather Christle
March 4, 2014: "Leaving Labor and Delivery" by Erin Rodoni
March 3, 2014: "Proof" by Ashley Seitz Kramer
May 16, 2013: "Words Against the Walls of the City" by Bruce Bond
April 5, 2013: "Valediction Lessons: Flora" by Bruce Bond
March 4, 2013: "Another Pastoral A" by Aaron McCollough
November 2, 2012: "Just Vanilla" "She was a pistol...."
October 31, 2012: "After the Feast at Year's End" by Brenda Hillman
October 30, 2012: "Une Lettre de la Mer de Glace" by Jo Ann Clark
July 17, 2012: "Sleep Song" "I want to remember the picture..."
July 16, 2012: "When a Man and a Woman Are Alone Together, the Third Person Present Is Satan" by Claire Sylvester Smith
December 23, 2011: "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
December 22, 2011: "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" by John Gallaher
September 28, 2011: "Portrayal, X-Ray" by Cori A. Winrock
September 26, 2011: "The Strategy" by Kascha Semonovitch
June 23, 2011: "The Commendation" by Dean Young
August 21, 2010: "Conditionals" by Ryan Flaherty
December 23, 2009: "Untitled" by Ryan Flaherty (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)
August 29, 2009: "Repititions" by Jennifer Moxley
April 6, 2009: "The People on the Bus" by Stephen Burt
April 4, 2009: "A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order" by Jack Ridl
April 2, 2009: "Iridescent, One Might Say" by Mary Ann Samyn
March 31, 2009: "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker

March 30, 2009: "Hare" by Joseph Campana
January 6, 2009: "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan
August 8, 2008: "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt
August 6, 2008: "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles
April 18, 2008: "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky
April 15, 2008: "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis
January 4, 2008: "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina
January 2, 2008: "Furlough" by Leslie Williams
December 23, 2007: "Eye Contact" by Craig Morgan Teicher
December 17, 2007: "In a Better World Than This" by James Cushing
November 19, 2007: "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 22, 2007: "Fighting" by Dana Goodyear
November 21, 2007: "Flicker" by Joanna Klink
November 20, 2007: "Poem Beside Itself" by Graham Foust
November 19, 2007: "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 8, 2007: "If You Should Care For Me" by Lacy Schutz
October 29, 2007: "Would That We Had" by DLacy Schutz

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