Cinder [Paperback]

Bruce Bond (Author)

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Publication Date: February 28, 2003

“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

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In Peal, we find a sustained exploration of mortality and its embodiment in the consolations of beauty, most notably in music, its often wordless language for the powers of renewal, faith, and the imagination.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Etruscan Press (February 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971822859
• ISBN-13: 978-0971822856
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,270,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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After receiving his BA in English from Pomona College, an MA in English from Claremont Graduate School, and a Masters in Music Performance from the Lamont School of Music, Bruce Bond worked for many years as a classical and jazz guitarist. Then, in 1987, he went on to receive his PhD in English from the University of Denver. Since that time he has taught at the University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Wilfrid Laurier University (in Canada), and most recently at the University of North Texas where he is a Regents Professor of English. His collections of poetry include Choir of the Wells (A trilogy of new books, Etruscan Press, 2013), The Visible (LSU, 2012), Peal (Etruscan Press, 2009), Blind Rain (Finalist, The Poets' Prize; Finalist, TIL Best Book of Poetry Prize, LSU, 2008), Cinder (Finalist, TIL Best Book of Poetry Prize, Etruscan Press, 2003), The Throats of Narcissus (University of Arkansas, 2001), Radiography (TIL Best Book of Poetry Award, BOA Editions, 1997), The Anteroom of Paradise (Colladay Award, QRL, 1991), and Independence Days (R. Gross Award, Woodley Press, 1990). His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Raritan, The New Republic, The Virginia Quarterly, Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies, and he has received numerous honors including the Kesterson Teaching Award (2009) and fellowships from the NEA (2001-2002), Texas Commission on the Arts (1998; only one award given out), the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts (2010; only three awards given out statewide), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (1993; assisted Donald Justice), Wesleyan Writers' Conference (1996; assisted Henry Taylor), Sewanee Writers' Conference (1994; assisted Anthony Hecht), the MacDowell Foundation (1993), the Yaddo Corporation (1992), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1989), and other organizations. His poetry has won the Milton Dorfman Prize (Rome Center, 1991), the Greensboro Review Literary Award (1989), two River Styx International Poetry Prizes (1999, 2003), two Academy of American Poets Prizes (1984, 1986), the Billee Murray Denny Award (1994), a William Matthews Poetry Award (2011), the Cincinnati Poetry Review Award (1991), the Denver Writer's Award (sponsored by Colorado Federation of the Arts, judged by Ray Gonzalez, 1987), the Plainspeak Poetry Prize (1979), and 21 Pushcart Nominations (each year from 1993 to 2010). In 2002, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Presently he is Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Book to Reread, January 4, 2009

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This review is from: Cinder (Paperback)

I bought this book several years ago and have read it often since then. In its word music, its marvelous and surprising and yet quite temperate images, and in its love for the the world it transforms, there is much to savor and much to learn. When I forget what I aspire to as a poet, Bond is there to remind me that there is such a thing as beauty and that language, clumsy beast though it may be, can take me there.