Poems rich in romance, life, and nature, Seasons in Love journeys through four seasons and through love that breaks and sustains us. Ozark summer heat to winter blizzards, long-lasting love grips these poems. With words and language from southern Missouri hills, Malone takes us into the romantic backwoods of moon, creek, and mountain, but ultimately leads us to life—"it's blue light, barely seen."
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Dave Malone's poetry is funny and sexy and heartbreaking in its honesty. Malone's craft is impeccable, he can travel swiftly across oceans and continents, across memories, like Rimbaud with his wild boat. He is one of our great contemporary love poets, one who hasn't been squeezed dry by academia. Malone proves that poetry can still be unfettered, and fun. --Marilyn Kallet, author, Packing Light: New and Selected Poems; Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Tennessee
Grab a glass of wine, curl up in your favorite reading spot, and then prepare to be swept away. Dave Malone's sexy, wistful poems will not disappoint.
--Susan Solomon, editor of Sleet Magazine
With stark sentiment, Dave Malone's poems brave the harsh elements of exposure to find shelter and respite in unexpected places. This volume cuts through our deepest layers of protection, reveals accumulated regret, and the unyielding spirit that seeks to connect.
--Cynthia L. Toups, Senior Poetry Editor, Rose & Thorn Journal
Grab a glass of wine, curl up in your favorite reading spot, and then prepare to be swept away. Dave Malone's sexy, wistful poems will not disappoint.
--Susan Solomon, editor of Sleet Magazine
With stark sentiment, Dave Malone's poems brave the harsh elements of exposure to find shelter and respite in unexpected places. This volume cuts through our deepest layers of protection, reveals accumulated regret, and the unyielding spirit that seeks to connect.
--Cynthia L. Toups, Senior Poetry Editor, Rose & Thorn Journal
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Dave Malone is the author of four books of poetry, Seasons in Love, Under the Sycamore, Poems to Love and the Body, and 23 Sonnets. His poems have appeared in various literary journals including decomP, Elder Mountain, Mid Rivers Review, San Pedro River Review, Spindrift, and Word Riot. His interests include Ozark culture, Alan Watts, and private eye novels. To connect with Dave, visit davemalone.net or twitter.com/dzmalone.
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Format:Paperback
The Ozark Mountains are the oldest on this planet, and Dave Malone writes with a soul as old as the hills. At times rubbed raw and wrapped in plaid flannel, then with a change of seasons he pedals the wheels of love of body, of loss, of sensuality, jazz, laughter, landscape and strawberry blondes. He's not shy of any expression, any season of the heart or these mountains.
Poetry at its best is a shape-shifter, and this is poetry at its best. It sits on the stack of favored books beside my bed, and each reading of poems now familiar brings an experience so new I wonder if I'd forgotten to read that poem the first time through. Like the hollows and precarious cliffs of the Ozarks, Malone's writing can make you stumble and fall into hidden places of the heart and rugged humanity, stripped of big city pretensions. As the seasons change the color of the sky, the blush of love written with such honesty changes the color of one's complexion. But he's never vulgar, just an honest melody of the body in love.
Everything moves too fast in this new world. It's a welcome relief slowing down in poetry worth the time, time and time again.
Poetry at its best is a shape-shifter, and this is poetry at its best. It sits on the stack of favored books beside my bed, and each reading of poems now familiar brings an experience so new I wonder if I'd forgotten to read that poem the first time through. Like the hollows and precarious cliffs of the Ozarks, Malone's writing can make you stumble and fall into hidden places of the heart and rugged humanity, stripped of big city pretensions. As the seasons change the color of the sky, the blush of love written with such honesty changes the color of one's complexion. But he's never vulgar, just an honest melody of the body in love.
Everything moves too fast in this new world. It's a welcome relief slowing down in poetry worth the time, time and time again.
By Mary T.
Format:Paperback
Dave Malone's beautiful writing awakened something inside me I thought was long gone. Not only did I read and reread each poem, I fell in love over and over again.
