Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-five books including, Patmos, Behemoth, Liberation of Dissonance, and Invention of the Wilderness, plus two books of criticism: Immanent Distance, and Plurality and the Poetics of Self. He has received numerous honors including the Juniper Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the New Criterion Prize, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry awards, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry. Bond teaches part time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.