Breakup/Breakdown
"With wry humor and poignant contemplation, 'Breakup/Breakdown' provides readers with excellent company, whether recalling breakups of their own or simply witnessing the narrative of the book’s hero. In the poem 'Disruption,' our speaker advises that, 'Love, my friends, should never / be entrusted to the heart, whose job / is to push away the only thing / the world will ever offer it.' In the midst of loss that is both personal and universal, Jensen conjures familiar figures, from literature to film, to offer another dimension of insight on the path from sorrow to empowerment. This chapbook has all the emotional heft of a full-length collection, and every line glistens with truth." — Mary Biddinger, author of "Small Enterprise"
Bio
Charles Jensen earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University in 2004. He is the author of five chapbooks of poems, most recently "Story Problems" and "The First Risk," which was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. A new collection of prose poems, "Nanopedia," is forthcoming in 2018.
