Bruce Bond’s seventh full-length collection of poetry, Peal (Etruscan Press), features 29 poems exploring mortality and its embodiment in music.

Poet Molly Bendall describes the collection as “ghostly, elegiac and ecstatic … a work of exquisite complexity by one of our best poets writing today.”

Bond, Regents Professor of English, serves as poetry editor for American Literary Review. His poem “Ringtone,” which is included in Peal, was selected for The Best American Poetry 2009 anthology.