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
paradoxically, since it is a form of loss itself. The work includes
a long meditation, ""The Return,"" that hinges on the double sense
of the word ""true"" as suggesting both ""the real"" and ""the
loyal,"" and so participates, often through personal and cultural
narrative, in a postmodern conversation about the power of
returning as a way of grounding us ethically and emotionally to the
world at hand. From Wake: ""One day now since my father last tried
to speak, // since the outer provinces of his body shut // down
like small cities when the power goes, // just the enormity of
starlight to guide them // on their cold journey into dawn. I am
writing // at the edge of the other half of life, the part //
without my father in it; I feel the strange // sure pull of the
earth I walk here, // the polish of the grass, the distance between
me // and my students who look up and wait // for my first
questions, knowing so little // of my life, just as I know so
little of theirs, // only a poem at a time to hold us together //
like children before a fire in the woods.
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