By Bruce Bond

2022 Richard Snyder Prize Winner. 

Available from:  Ashland Bookstore

Praise for Bruce Bond's Vault

"Gravid, lucid in its stillness and haunting music, Vault is a symphonic poem whose six movements explore personal loss, capitalism, memory, and the passage of time, often through urgent metaphor and paradox...  Recalling the compassionate music of Gustav Mahler, Bruce Bond attempts 'to teach the heavens what it is to grieve.'"

-- Mark Irwin

About the Author

Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-two books including, most recently, Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), Scar (Etruscan, 2020), Behemoth (New Criterion Prize, Criterion Books, 2021), The Calling (Parlor, 2021), Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021), and Liberation of Dissonance (Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner Press, 2022).  His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including seven editions of Best American Poetry.  Presently he is Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.