Visible: Poems-Quality Guarantee

Description

Title: Visible: Poems

Author: Bruce Bond

ISBN: 9780807142684

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2012

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 80

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher :

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 passages shocked with highlight, / glossed with scratches in a mother’s hand.”