Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-two 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 Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner Press, 2022), and Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023). Forthcoming books include Choreomania (MadHat), The Mirror, the Patch, the Telescope (co-author, David Keplinger, MadHat),Therapon (co-author, Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo), and Vault (Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, Ashland Poetry Press). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including seven editions of Best American Poetry. Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
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..."

Books by Bruce Bond:

Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
"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"

About Liberation of Dissonance:

"The world's first drum was nothing we would call / a drum/ Nothing, that is, until we heard it," writes Bruce Bond, a poet whose work I have read and loved for many years. There is music, in Bond's poems, that is like no one else's. It is both beautifully traditional, and yet innovative, because it responds to the metaphysics of his moment, to the heart of our day. Bruce Bond is a brilliant and true poet, I am glad for every new reader of his works."
—Ilya Kaminsky