Thirty years later, striding a hypotenuse/of bare earth between two
sidewalks here/at the university, I can't explain the times;/Abbie
Hoffman high jumps a velvet aisle/rope in federal court and Old
Main/burns boundless in the night like/an ecstatic cult of images
because/we did or did not love the Fatherland.
From ""American Chicken""
Striking imagery and precise diction are characteristics of
American Chicken, from the eloquence of the elegiac "Rend Lake at
Sunset," a poetic reflection on the southern Illinois mining
landscape where "hills of scoured coal smolder," to the tragi-comic
nostalgia and regret inherent in the title poem as the narrator
envies those who made the hard Vietnam choices he feels he
evaded.
The poems in this very accessible book won for its author the
Friends of Morris Library Delta Award, a regional prize presented
to Bond "in recognition of his evocative poetry describing the blue
collar working man and the Midwest, giving the common man a unique
place in the literature of southern Illinois."
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