Dove of the Morning News

Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-five books including, Patmos, Behemoth, Liberation of Dissonance, and Invention of the Wilderness, plus two books of criticism: Immanent Distance, and Plurality and the Poetics of Self. He has received numerous honors including the Juniper Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the New Criterion Prize, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry awards, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry. Bond teaches part time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

“The great virtue of these poems—and it is an aesthetic as well as an ethical virtue—is to dare to regard the parlous circumstance of our moment sub specie aeternitatis. The results are not only indisputable. They are, almost miraculously, reassuring.”  —Donald Revell, professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of The English Boat  “The best book in the many written by one of the best living American poets, The Dove of the Morning News is news that will stay news.”  —Claudia Keelan, professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, editor of Interim, and author of eight collections of poetry, including We Step into the Sea