Poems. Saddle-stapled chapbook. "In this marvelous collection, Charles Jensen gracefully ranges from grief to redemption in tightly constructed elegies. A lesser poet would have abandoned prosody for emotion, would have ignored creativity for therapy, would have betrayed the personal for the solipsistic, but Jensen's talent is large, encompassing, and smart. Like too few other poets on today's scene, he understands the elegy as genre and the capacity of poetry of all sorts to show, to guide, to confirm. I'm grateful for these personal glimpses into a death and a life, which are as unflinching as they are brave." —Jim Elledge