Liberation of Dissonance
Poems
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Publisher Description
Musician and poet Bruce Bond has returned us to the world of structure and form in these haunting poems that celebrate the role of dissonance as a creative force in our lives. With its finely honed language and interweaving of free-verse couplets, poet and musician Bruce Bond has returned us to the world of structure and form as the framework for this profound exploration of dissonance in music, in art, in our lives and its underlying power to restore meaning and hope in a chaotic world.
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The illusory and atmospheric latest from Bond (Blackout Starlight) tackles the theme of dissonance in music as a metaphor for the secrets of life, death, and the cosmos. In "Lamella," a woman playing the oboe at a wedding as the bride walks down the aisle echoes the harvesting of mushrooms in southern France, the scenes juxtaposed for their delicate instruments: the reed, "the thin resilient tip that, when sounded, vanishes from view," and the mushroom's fragile construction, "Beneath the brim of the cap, the mushroom's papery fan/ broke to pieces at my touch. It crumpled the way bodies do/ beneath a shared diagnosis." Many poems address historical figures and events with multifaceted sensitivity. Bond is particularly skilled at interpreting sounds of nature through a musical lens; he writes of wolves howling, "It sounded honeyed at first, the binding of the voices// the way they bleed like sirens into echoes, echoes/ into the silence to come." Written entirely in couplets, Bond's form suits the subject matter with expert, lulling rhythms. This is a captivating ode to the power of music and the unnoticed melodies that mark the tempos of daily life.
