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" Blind rain : "
Bruce Bond.
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BL
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1037420
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b791790
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| Main Entry
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Bond, Bruce,1954-
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Blind rain : : poems /\ Bruce Bond.
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| Publication Statement
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (viii, 68 pages)
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| ISBN
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0807134201
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: 9780807134207
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0807133086
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9780807133088
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| Contents
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I. Anonymity; Afterlife; Wake; Rehearsals for the New Order; The Invisible; Flag; Luggage; Anonymity; II. Black Radium; On Certainty; Liberation of Dissonance; Glass Enclosure; Nerval's Lute; North; Exile's Song; Blue Instrument; III. To The Skywalkers; The Beasts of Paradise; Grove; The Embalmer's Daughter Studies Ears; Elegy for the Living; To the Skywalkers; Terra Incognita; Blind Rain; IV. The Return; Crucifix; Transparencies; Microscope; The Quick; The Return; Will; Acknowledgments.
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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, si.
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Bond, Bruce,1954-
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American literature.
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American literature.
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POETRY-- American-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.54
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PS3552.O5943B56 2008eb
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