Eros & (Fill in the Blank). A book-length poem available from BlazeVOX Books.

Read a review of Eros & (Fill in the Blank) here.

"Charles Freeland dances under moonlight. The landscape for his delightfully curious insights is visual, symbolic, a work of art and an advanced warning dusted with allusion, playfulness and literary confidence. A poem in prose, an epistolary project, Eros unspools advice wise, subversive and funny; very funny. Sentences tumble, one after the other. Truth rides shotgun to contradiction. I suspect James Joyce has placed an advanced order for this book-length paragraph of lilting depth and joy, as well as Charles Bernstein, Charles Simic, Lee Ann Brown, Frank O'Hara and assorted scholastics and philosophers. Freeland is Polonius on acid. Unlike Polonius, the author is advantaged by having read the tragedy's fifth act while simultaneously knowing pleasures of sensation and the `fact of the human body. Its shape like the modest ginger root.' As only passionate careful writers can do, Freeland offers his readers – you and you and you – his brimming heart on his well-tailored sleeve. On our `advanced planet' Psyche is in danger, Eros cautions – though worth much regard. How bright Freeland's moon."

 -- Sarah Sarai, author of The Future Is Happy


"Freeland's virtuosic proem embarks on an existential madrigal studded with fulgurate reflections, a literary eclair where moments of sharp simplicity will not brace us for constant intimate impact. There are no respites in this single exhalation, both irremediable and brassy in its delivery. Conspicuous blanks are as purloined as the thought-objects that populate this wordscape."

-- Kane X. Faucher, author of Jonkil Dies (A Mesophysical Eulogy) and The Vicious Circulation of Dr. Catastrophe


"Charles Freeland’s poetic voice is that rarity of philosophical posits intertwined with a language of emotional accord.  Eros & (Fill in the Blank) contains poetry of invention, reinvention, musical decency drawing the reader into Freeland’s specialized poetic language. It involves the reader in the aspectual protocol of following the poet’s patterned thought, of allowing for spatial interpretation to engage and familiarize one with the presence of greatness in a work of art."

—Felino A. Soriano, author of 15 collections of poetry, including Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm







Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burrow. A full-length collection available from Otoliths.

Read a review of Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro here.

"Charles Freeland employs narrative sequence as a mode of aspiring to innocence. Each of these deceptively direct prose pieces, `embracing that infinity,' is replete with power to endure what finally endows the conscious mind with revelations disguised as moments. Freeland’s wry humor, charged observations, sonorous lines (`Eulalie stands thigh deep in the river'), remind us of our privilege `just to catch the echo of it, the way children sometimes catch crayfish on the end of a sharpened stick.' One final word for Freeland: `Encore!'”
 
-- Sheila E. Murphy


"Freeland's collection takes us on a journey with unexpected directions and deviations. Full of satire and the understated, the poetry of Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro is masterful."

-- William Allegrezza









Furiant, Not Polka. A collection of twenty-five prose poems, available as a free e-chapbook from Moria. To access, click on the image. Or purchase a print copy here.


"Charles Freeland's prose poems take us on a highspeed, dizzying trip. The everyday world of laundry lists, half-eaten breakfasts,  and cars which won't start - the world we think we know so well  - takes on a terrifying yet exhilirating sheen. Freeland weaves and whirls from image to image, but somehow,  like an improvising jazz musician, he is skilful enough to take us with him. And not so far beneath the zany, ever-changing surface, there are quieter and darker echoes of an almost-metaphysical presence, which, however inconvenient or disturbing, refuses to leave our lives."
   
                             - Ian Seed, author of Rescue and editor of Shadowtrain

  





The Case of the Danish King Halfdene. A collection of twenty prose poems available as a free e-chapbook from Mudlark. To access, click on the image. Or purchase a print copy here.



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Eulalie & Squid


Where We Saw Them Last