478 reviews for:

Jane

Maggie Nelson

4.33 AVERAGE

ajc_0910's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

hilaryannbrown's review against another edition

5.0

dark reflective fast-paced

iris_krauze's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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Maggie Nelson did an incredible job piecing together her stories, reflections, and pieces of information and writings gathered from her aunt Jane, for this wildly beautiful memoir-esque collection of poetry. I don't really know how to describe it, but this book, like so many of Neslon's writings, blends and transgresses genres of writing in a way that works so well. The presence and reflection on Jane as a person throughout this piece, as well as the way that Jane's inner thoughts, so beautifully parallel Maggie's own, and in turn connect with the reader, is is powerful here. I do feel like reading this book, I felt so much connectivity with both Maggie and Jane, and that is put even further into disturbing context given Jane's ultimate fate that frames so much of Maggie's life and her family.

e_z's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

dukegregory's review against another edition

4.0

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Really great stuff with one fifth of it not comprised with really great stuff.

My reading load recently has been quite an intense batch of memoirs about grief and the subjugation of women. It's all been wonderfully ruminative but brutally grim. I wish to breathe.

drew03's review against another edition

fast-paced

ajohnson88's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

mreddy17's review

4.0

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"treating things lightly is indeed the answer to so much"

eshwarya05's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

piscesprincesss's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective fast-paced