Valedictory
Title
Valedictory
Subject
Coal Mining Exhibit
Description
Bond bio, Horrell photo, Bond poem
Creator
David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell
Source
The Light That Shatters Darkness Exhibit
Publisher
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Contributor
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Rights
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Format
Text, JPG photographs
Language
English
Type
Poetry, photography
Identifier
Exhibit Window #3
Original Format
Photograph of abandoned coal mine washhouse
Text
The Light That Shatters Darkness
David Bond, a current Morris Library staff member, previously worked for more than 17 years as third shift warehouse manager above an underground coal mine. At the same time, he attended SIU as a graduate student, and received an MFA in Creative Writing.
Since then, Bond has won two Illinois Arts Council Award Fellowships, a MacDowell Artist Fellowship, and published poems in numerous literary journals. His early poems about coal mining are in the chapbook "The Light That Shatters Darkness: Poems From the Spartan Mine."
Horrell's prize-winning photography complements Bond's poetry in this exhibit. His work is also published in the books, Colors and American Chicken.
Valedictory
What will you do now,
Bolter of Roofs, Shoveler of Spillages?
Your titles mean less
than the abandoned bib-overalls
dangling from treble hooks in the washhouse.
Look down the long fall one last time,
at darkness, the secret of light.
from "At The Closing Of The Spartan Mine"
David Bond, a current Morris Library staff member, previously worked for more than 17 years as third shift warehouse manager above an underground coal mine. At the same time, he attended SIU as a graduate student, and received an MFA in Creative Writing.
Since then, Bond has won two Illinois Arts Council Award Fellowships, a MacDowell Artist Fellowship, and published poems in numerous literary journals. His early poems about coal mining are in the chapbook "The Light That Shatters Darkness: Poems From the Spartan Mine."
Horrell's prize-winning photography complements Bond's poetry in this exhibit. His work is also published in the books, Colors and American Chicken.
Valedictory
What will you do now,
Bolter of Roofs, Shoveler of Spillages?
Your titles mean less
than the abandoned bib-overalls
dangling from treble hooks in the washhouse.
Look down the long fall one last time,
at darkness, the secret of light.
from "At The Closing Of The Spartan Mine"
Files
Collection
Citation
David Bond, Beth Martell, Doc Horrell, “Valedictory,” SCRC Virtual Museum at Southern Illinois University's Morris Library, accessed April 24, 2024, https://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/items/show/47.
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