Dear Reader

Bruce Bond

Description

In his single-poem sequence, Dear Reader, Bruce Bond explores the metaphysics of reading as central to the way we negotiate a world—the evasions of our gods and monsters; our Los Angeles in flames; the daily chatter of our small, sweet, and philosophical beasts. In light of an imagined listener and the world taken as a whole, Bond sees the summons of the self in the other, and in the way the other in the self informs our sacrifices and reckoning, our speechless hesitations, our jokes and our rituals of loss. Every moment of personal and political life, interpretation holds the page of the human face, not far but far enough, and all the while, beneath our gaze, the subtext that is no text at all, where the old argument between universals and particulars breaks down, exhausted, and the real in the imagined is, by necessity, renewed.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602352810
• Langue: English

Extrait

Bond Dear Reader

DEAR READER

 Parlor Press

BRUCE BOND

Free Verse Edîtîons Edîted by Jon Tompson

Dear Reader

Bruce Bond

Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com

Paror Press LLC, Anderson, Sout Caroîna, 29621

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Contents

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