In this Book
- The Visible: Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
summary
In The Visible, we enter into a surreal landscape "where it is neither day nor night / but both at once," where light becomes an imaginative force that both illuminates and obscures. The illegible draws us closer to the page-the visible revealed, paradoxically, by what we cannot see.
Though these formally restrained poems possess an abstract and introspective intensity, Bond grounds them in the everyday. Both vivid and speculative, the chiseled lyrics breathe. In "My Mother's Closet," the pages of medical books become holy and horrendous, "soiled at the corners, the mind's / terrific passages shocked with highlight, / glossed with scratches in a mother's hand."
Table of Contents
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- I.
- Empire of Light
- p. 1
- The Girl Who Feared the Wind
- pp. 4-5
- Ode to a Pair of Spectacles
- pp. 6-7
- The Visible
- pp. 10-11
- New York Drive
- pp. 12-14
- II.
- Underworld
- pp. 20-21
- My Mother’s Closet
- p. 22
- Elegy for the Lost Book
- pp. 25-26
- Constellation
- pp. 29-30
- The Convalescence of Summer
- pp. 31-32
- III.
- Memoirs of the Five Senses
- pp. 35-36
- Homage to the Left Hand
- pp. 38-39
- Arcanum of the Other Leg
- pp. 45-46
- Homage to the Foot
- pp. 47-48
- IV.
- Black Iris
- p. 62
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807142691
Related ISBN(s)
9780807142684, 9780807142707
MARC Record
OCLC
890983594
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No