The dead are never far from the living in Patmos, the end is always nigh, and the cultural symptoms of denial and reconciliation, unresolved shame and loneliness, remain just beneath the surface: ""It is how, these many / years, we survived. In our rooms, alone, at the end of time."" In this book-length poetic sequence, Bruce Bond explores the psychology of endings as a living presence that haunts our spiritual, moral, and ecological imaginations, elevates its summons, and draws us to question its significance.
The horrors and glories in the revelations of John of Patmos provide a lens into a wound, a crisis of values, a longing to heal a visionary brokenness that is fundamentally solitary and yet contemporary, written against a door that will not open.
| ISBN: | 9781625345615 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2021 |
| Author: | Bruce Bond |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 59 pages |
| Series: | Juniper Prize for Poetry |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Poetry |
The dead are never far from the living in Patmos, the end is always nigh, and the cultural symptoms of denial and reconciliation, unresolved shame and loneliness, remain just beneath the surface: ""It is how, these many / years, we survived. In our rooms, alone, at the end of time."" In this book-length poetic sequence, Bruce Bond explores the psychology of endings as a living presence that haunts our spiritual, moral, and ecological imaginations, elevates its summons, and draws us to question its significance.
Patmos features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets, Poetry
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Patmos was written by Bruce Bond and published by University of Massachusetts Press
Patmos has 59 pages
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