Living Things
Thorngate Road Press, 2006
Winner of the Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, judged by Jim Elledge


"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, 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 for 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
LITTLE BURNING EDENS   LIVING THINGS THE STRANGE CASE OF MARIBEL DIXON