The Plural of Water

Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-seven books, including the recent prizewinning poetry collections Vault and The Dove of the Morning News. He teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

"In The Plural of Water, Bruce Bond composes a searching, open-field meditation on the fractured psyche, ecological precariousness, and the lyric's capacity to hold the unrepresentable. Structured in three movements, this collection traverses trauma, memory, and planetary grief, engaging with suffering not as a subject to be resolved but as an epistemological and ontological problem. Here, the lyric is a porous body: vulnerable to the pressures of violence and silence, yet capacious enough to hold contradiction, fluidity, and recurrence. Bond's poems unspool in an elliptical syntax that mirrors the fragmentary experience of consciousness itself, fusing philosophical inquiry with imagistic precision. At once somatic and cerebral, The Plural of Water asks how we perceive, what we inherit, and whether language-like water-can ever bear the full weight of what it is asked to carry." - Kimberly Grey