Some Notes On Charlie Jensen's The First Risk

I've read some great new books in recent weeks and wanted to highlight some of them.  This post is dedicated to Charlie Jenson's first full-length collection, The First Risk:

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The first thing that struck me about the collection is how unified it is, both within each sequence and across each sequence.  The thematic arcs have a lot to do with this, the most obvious perhaps grief, being the survivor, the one left behind after a loved one dies.  We get an exploration of grief from four very...