University of North Texas English professor Bruce Bond’s Blind Rain, a book of poetry, was recently released by Louisiana State University Press. The book includes several elegies, many concerning last days and death of his father. It also includes “The Return,” a long meditation that explores the double meaning of the word “true.”

Bond, also a jazz and classical guitarist, is author of five other poetry collections, including Cinder, The Throats of Nar­cis­sus, Radiography, The Anteroom of Paradise and Independence Days.

Blind Rain is available for purchase at www.lsu.edu/lsupress.