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Choir of the Wells is a tetralogy of new books that cohere as an exploration of the mind-body enigma.

Light, we know, is an invisible thing.
The beam that falls through the theaters
of a childhood-- we trust it's there

thanks only to the dust that floats inside it,
and the screen, of course, the stuff that takes
the dark of light and makes of it a story.

Bruce Bond is the author of eight previous books of poetry. He is Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and poetry editor for American Literary...

Blackout Starlight brings together a selection of poems from nine previously published books, along with a generous assortment of new work. At the heart of this collection are investigations of the role of eros, language, and creative life, and of the wonder and anxiety of their absence. In Bond s telling, the lines between real and unreal, living and dead, blur together in the poet s imagination, casting an equally compassionate eye upon the man we see writhing in the marble of an uncarved statue and the son at a funeral trying to face the other half of life, the part / without...

-With the luminous precision of music, Bruce Bond has crafted, in Cinder, a generous and urgent collection of poems, a work that celebrates the human condition and terrifies us with it in equal measure. The result is a book of poems weighted with dark vision, set loose. Bruce Bond is one of our generation's best poets, and this is his best book.---Laura Kasischke

In his newest collection, Blind Rain, Bruce Bond transforms the known and the familiar into something surreal and new. With spare, unadorned language, he complicates what it is to be both bound to the world and yet free within that world, the way in which the imagination deepens our engagements and yet offers some measure of distance at the same time.

Bond opens with several elegies, many of which concern the last days and death of his father. Later poems explore the power of imaginative response as compensation for loss, focusing on poetry, madness, and music, which consoles...

In The Visible, we enter into a surreal landscape "where it is neither day nor night / but both at once," where light becomes an imaginative force that both illuminates and obscures. The illegible draws us closer to the page -- the visible revealed, paradoxically, by what we cannot see.

Though these formally restrained poems possess an abstract and introspective intensity, Bond grounds them in the everyday. Both vivid and speculative, the chiseled lyrics breathe. In "My Mother's Closet," the pages of medical books become holy and horrendous, "soiled at the corners, the mind's / terrific...

-The poems in Bruce Bond's new collection Peal probe music's deepest sources. These beautifully crafted lyrics lead us down into intricate and sonoruous paths where we meet out own uncertain songs, at once ghostly, elegiac, and ecstatic. This is a work of exquisite complexity by one of our best poets writing today.---Molly Bendall

-The speculative drive of these poems pushes the reader to the very limits of reflection.---Daniel Tiffany

-Poets have ever sought a seamless integration of art and life: think of Keats's 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' or...