Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems, 1997-2015 - Softcover

Bond, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807165336 ISBN 13: 9780807165331

Publisher: LSU Press, 2017

Synopsis

Blackout Starlight brings together a selection of poems from nine previously published books, along with a generous assortment of new work. At the heart of this collection are investigations of the role of eros, language, and creative life, and of the wonder and anxiety of their absence. In Bond’s telling, the lines between real and unreal, living and dead, blur together in the poet’s imagination, casting an equally compassionate eye upon “the man we see writhing in the marble” of an uncarved statue and the son at a funeral trying to face “the other half of life, the part / without my father in it.”

Taken together, the selections in this book represent the highlights of a dazzling career in poetry and leave the reader eager for many more years of Bond’s verses to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Bond is the author of fifteen books, including For the Lost Cathedral, The Other Sky, and Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand. He is Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0807165336
• ISBN 13: 9780807165331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226