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They revel in the discoveries of Natural Science as well as the hoaxes and scientific jokes that litter our history of knowing. These are the product of Charles Malone’s rural upbringing and connection to the natural world, his family's passed-down bookishness, and his mother’s work as a chemist. Poems like “Beneficial Insects” and “Papilio Ecclipses” look to the intersections of these ideas with our most intimate personal relationships. The poem “About the River” comes from Malone’s work using poetry writing in the community to talk about the history of the Cuyahoga River. These pieces balance intellectual searching with domestic moments of childhood, marriage, and the making of a home. BUY NOW “A generous skepticism about the nature of knowledge, paired with an abiding care about nature itself, undergirds Charlie Malone’s frank, witty, and deeply searching Working Hypothesis. Child of scientists, witness to the many ways in which knowledge so often becomes a means of hiding from the world rather than its means of revelation, these poems take upon themselves an ancient command, to know thyself, understanding all the while, that such an ideal might not exist. Science and reason cannot save us from our situation—not only the impending doom of climate crisis, but the more quietly troubled fates of our personal lives. But Malone also trusts that knowledge begins in wonder, and if one can learn to undermine our self-seriousness with serious play, we might move beyond the facts into more startlingly realized realms: “for a long time, none of us understood / that the work we do on our spirits / isn’t a lonely work.” The genial spirit of these poems is ample proof of the claim—read the book, and you’ll find yourself less alone. “ -Dan Beachy-Quick, Author of Variations on Dawn and Dusk “Life is a science without answers in Charlie Malone’s stunning collection of poems rooted in the naturalness of human existence. Home as a science lab, the Cuyahoga River on fire, the frosting of garlic bulb fields, a son’s voice reaching out to tell an absent father about the bachelor buttons in the ditch, rubber bands between teeth, an homage to Robert J. Brown, cell tissues reduced to inky carbon, reciprocity as a language, stories baring scars and casualties, what poetry must leave out, the avoidance of the hassle of masculinity, mother as chemist, and the feeling of failure converge in a world that explores how we absorb & resist. These are poems in search of possibility. A wanting of that which is absent juxtaposed against a vivid and vibrant world that simultaneously taxes and excites our minds and physicality of being. These are poems of wonder. The place where wonder meets the restless incompletion of a life in progress. Of course we are an experiment. “Let me show you,” says the voice in “The Chemist’s Son.” We are natural beings and our lives are wild and unfurling. Alive, alive, alive is exactly what these poems are. Above all, Malone contemplates the faith in our naturalness and faith in how things turn out in absence— absence of any equation, script, paternal figure, directions, or hoax that defines how a life evolves.” -Felicia Zamora, Author of Body of Render https://www.cjmalone.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-06-08 https://www.cjmalone.com/about-2 daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede350cf0b3491b6432f779/1591718308544-MW7G8XCVKVJF0U0LPKWB/CJM_ProfilePic_RE.jpg Bio / About - about Charles Malone grew up in rural Northeastern Ohio, headed west to the Rockies, came back to the Great Lakes, and has loved all of it. His first full-length collection, Working Hypothesis is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press in 2020. His chapbook "Questions About Circulation" is out with Driftwood Press as part of the Adrift Chapbook Series. He edited the collection "A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park" with Wolverine Farm Publishing and has work recently published or forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, The Best of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, The Sugar House Review, The Dunes Review, and Saltfront. Charles now works at the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University coordinating community outreach programs. https://www.cjmalone.com/questions-about-circulation daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede350cf0b3491b6432f779/1591625241724-PBLSNY6JYNVOTVQ80UWD/Question_Circ_Rectangle.jpg Questions About Circulation - Questions About Circulation Questions About Circulation, celebrates and challenges rural life. In short, the poems are about leaving home, experiencing a larger world, and the circumstances that bring us back to where we started — willingly and not. The poems revel in the tactile, in dirt and work. "Questions About Circulation is vivid and visceral and palpable. All the perks of James Wright and Wendell Berry, and lyricism all his own. The work is somehow softly abrasive." -Erica Dawson, author of When Rap Spoke Straight to God “These poems brim with glacial moraine, crumbling mills, wild blackberry thickets, and ‘a big peaceful cement pond [reflecting] tarnished copper.’ But it is aftermath that concerns the present, and these poems haunt the body’s arterial connections: “a vein is a way elsewhere, and part of a circuit.” Tracing our entanglements, Charles Malone’s Questions About Circulation returns us to the ground of our senses: ‘and slow down/put the o in close the boy has flown’.” -Matthew Cooperman, author of Spool buy now https://www.cjmalone.com/shop daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede350cf0b3491b6432f779/1591713994035-9XEHFW67DH3FNIH9GBAK/Question_Circ_Square.jpg Shop - Questions about circulation By Charles Malone Available / Ready to Ship $7.99, Chapbook, Paperback Driftwood Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede350cf0b3491b6432f779/1591713742866-TN15CR4FERAS6ZRTVPLH/WorkingHyp_Square.jpg Shop - Working Hypothesis By Charles Malone $19.99, Full-length, Paperback Finishing Line Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede350cf0b3491b6432f779/1649702332201-S7PF7KKCET1G90IOMJKP/Moths_Square.jpg Shop - After an Eclipse of Moths: The Crewdson Poems By Charles Malone $10.00, Chapbook, Paperback Moonstone Press https://www.cjmalone.com/after-the daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede350cf0b3491b6432f779/1649699378474-1V4DCM4VEW5R22CSNBJ4/Moths_Rectangle.jpg After an Eclipse of Moths: The Crewdson Poems - After an Eclipse of Moths: The Crewdson Poems These poems are written in response to photographs in Gregory Crewdson's exhibit 'An Eclipse of Moths.' Ekphrasis, persona, homage, interrogation, and response became ways to find inspiration when our normal lives were interrupted. They were my best effort to write anything other than a pandemic poem. I would sometimes return to the same photograph and find a new way to write to or from it. Winner of the 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest “With unerring pitch, Charles Malone offers a series of miniature meditations in After an Eclipse of Moths: The Crewdson Poems. Written in correspondence with Gregory Crewdson’s photographic sequence, the poems enlarge ekphrasis with questions, arguments, fictionalizations and digressions that unearth the alienation and inarticulate longing of small town, post-industrial America. His cool distance and tonal control put a brake on the passage of time, slowing it so that motion and emotion can be observed, absorbed, and reconstituted as an interzone between the ordinary and the uncanny, the broken and the transcendent.” —J.C. 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