Bruce Bond
Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books including, most recently, Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 L. E. Phillabaum Award; Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Press, 2018), which won the Elixir Press Fiction Award; Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018); Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse Press, 2018); and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is currently the Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.
Reading List
Book of Dolls 35
The skeleton in the studio of the lyric soprano has no heart for singing now. But still he listens. So the singing says. Still she pours desire and its figures out, noting, in turn, the droll arrangement, attached to tissues that vanished long ago. Mr. Bones, our prima donna calls him and laughs, and still […]
Book of Dolls 32
I had a beautiful Frankenstein once I made from the fragments, fused with glue, and I gave to him the sad complexion of acetylene and angels and postcards of distant earth. He was my other father, my little man of science at odds with death, born of it and thus, like me, its orphan. But […]