Poetry chapbook by Bruce Bond
It’s an ancient thought, which does not lessen its necessity, but deepens it—that words keep within themselves hidden potencies whose power might heal the harms any one of us suffers. Our harms are myriad and surprising—belief hurts, and memory does, too; illness hurts, and mind does, too. The world is a world of harm and beauty, where the wind knocks down the heron’s nest, and dead friends return in dreams to let tell you “Everything’s connected.” Such wounds course throughout Bruce Bond’s Incursions of Light, and yet, the cumulative effect is anything but despairing. Instead, these poems read as primer of poetic faith, in which naming the mystery deepens the mystery, and describing the answerless facts of our lives brings us closer to the question no answer can answer: “the work song of here, now, forever.” - Dan Beachy-Quick
Poetry chapbook by Bruce Bond
It’s an ancient thought, which does not lessen its necessity, but deepens it—that words keep within themselves hidden potencies whose power might heal the harms any one of us suffers. Our harms are myriad and surprising—belief hurts, and memory does, too; illness hurts, and mind does, too. The world is a world of harm and beauty, where the wind knocks down the heron’s nest, and dead friends return in dreams to let tell you “Everything’s connected.” Such wounds course throughout Bruce Bond’s Incursions of Light, and yet, the cumulative effect is anything but despairing. Instead, these poems read as primer of poetic faith, in which naming the mystery deepens the mystery, and describing the answerless facts of our lives brings us closer to the question no answer can answer: “the work song of here, now, forever.” - Dan Beachy-Quick