Poetry. In Bruce Bond's seventh book, we see a sustained exploration of mortality and its embodiment in the consolations of beauty, most notably in music. "Poets have ever sought a seamless integration of art and life: think of Keats's 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' or Yeats's 'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' In Bruce Bond's PEAL, as in the work of his best predecessors, 'it is impossible to know / where music ends, the world begins'"--H.L. Hix.

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Bruce Bond's collections of poetry include Blind Rain (Louisiana State University, 2008); CINDER (Etruscan, 2003); The Throats of Narcissus (University of Arkansas, 2001); RADIOGRAPHY (BOA, 1997), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry Award; The Anteroom of Paradise (QRL, 1991; Silverfish, 2007), winner of the Colladay Award; Independence Days (R. Gross Award, Woodley, 1990); and the recently published volume entitled PEAL (Etruscan, 2009). His poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The New Republic,and many other journals, and he has received numerous honors including fellowships from the NEA and Texas Commission on the Arts. At present he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.