{"product_id":"9780981968704","title":"Peal: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The poems in \u003cb\u003eBruce Bond\u003c\/b\u003e 's new collection \u003ci\u003ePeal \u003c\/i\u003e probe music's deepest sources. These beautifully crafted lyrics lead us down into intricate and sonoruous paths where we meet out own uncertain songs, at once ghostly, elegiac, and ecstatic. This is a work of exquisite complexity by one of our best poets writing today.”— \u003cb\u003eMolly Bendall\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The speculative drive of these poems pushes the reader to the very limits of reflection.”— \u003cb\u003eDaniel Tiffany\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Poets have ever sought a seamless integration of art and life: think of Keats's 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' or Yeats's 'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' In \u003cb\u003eBruce Bond\u003c\/b\u003e 's \u003ci\u003ePeal\u003c\/i\u003e , as in the work of this best predecessors, 'it is impossible to know\/where music ends, the world begins.'”— \u003cb\u003eH.L. Hix\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eBruce Bond\u003c\/b\u003e 's seventh book, we see a sustained exploration of mortality and its embodiment in the consolations of beauty, most notably in music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAs if even the respite of song is action,\u003cbr\u003eits silence no less. Even the bend and reach\u003cbr\u003eof architecture that rises out of the smolder\u003cbr\u003eand back, even the legs of the arc that return\u003cbr\u003ethe way the sun returns to a black well,\u003cbr\u003eits trespass quiet, slow, a ghost, a coin,\u003cbr\u003ea wish gone deep as the day grows old.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBruce Bond\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the University of North Texas and is poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Etruscan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019226005744,"sku":"9780981968704","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780981968704_p0.jpg?v=1763885435","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780981968704","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}