{"product_id":"the-calling-paperback-18","title":"The Calling - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBruce Bond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Bond's meditative sequence of poetry entitled \u003cem\u003eThe Calling\u003c\/em\u003e explores the act of naming as critical to survival--biologically, psychologically, and ethically--and yet no less an obstacle to attention, empathy, and the realization of a functional republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMidway through \u003cem\u003eThe Calling\u003c\/em\u003e this appears: \"I am learning to be two people, as voices are both voices \/and the music in them.\" There is no contemporary poet more aware of this fact as opportunity than Bruce Bond, whose music, whose severe and certain music, powerfully compels all the voices at his disposal throughout this book--all those journalists, children, and parents whose voicings became the poet's. The politics of this book is an esthetic as glorious as the politics of the era in which it arises is debased: \"I was looking back from a time \/ where I too would be speechless. \/ The earth green. No. Greener.\" The Calling succeeds in making beauty where there had been pain, which is the great gift of poetry. --Bin Ramke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruce Bond's remarkable book-length sequence manages to be many things at once--a searing indictment of the Trump imperium, a bittersweet elegy for the author's father, a tractate, a lamentation, a prayer. It is a vexed book for our vexing times. The collection's stance--in the tradition of contemporary masters such as Milosz and Geoffrey Hill--is an admixture of sorrow, rage, and wonder. This is a book of hard-won consolation, a talisman against our bewilderment. --David Wojahn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruce Bond is the author of twenty-five books including, most recently, \u003cem\u003eImmanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand\u003c\/em\u003e (U of MI, 2015), \u003cem\u003eBlack Anthem\u003c\/em\u003e (Tampa Review Prize, U of Tampa, 2016), \u003cem\u003eGold Bee\u003c\/em\u003e (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, SIU Press, 2016), \u003cem\u003eSacrum\u003c\/em\u003e (Four Way, 2017), \u003cem\u003eBlackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015\u003c\/em\u003e (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), \u003cem\u003eRise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods\u003c\/em\u003e (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), \u003cem\u003eDear Reader \u003c\/em\u003e(Free Verse Editions, 2018), \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein's Children\u003c\/em\u003e (Lost Horse, 2018), \u003cem\u003ePlurality and the Poetics of Self \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave, 2019), and \u003cem\u003eWords Written Against the Walls of the City\u003c\/em\u003e (LSU, 2019). Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351526359289,"sku":"9781643171524","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Nkl2S0I1QXp0ZEh0cGxhN0FGa3VmZz09.webp?v=1769800470","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-calling-paperback-18","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}