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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
3 stars for the writing/style, though I loved the first four prose poems so dearly. An extra star for the tenderness, and the way it leaks into memoir & makes a beautiful non-fiction hybrid elegy to one particular lost woman, who matters so much because she clearly matters to Nelson
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Murder
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder
Moderate: Rape
3.5 stars. One of the most haunting memoirs I have read but somehow I feel it didn't have the same enigma that other Nelson's books have. It might be probably how fragmentary the writing was - I just couldn't get into Nelson's poetry style.
reflective
sad
fast-paced
okay so i picked this book up and got a little way through it before i realised it was very far from fiction. this is a beautifully but tragically told story of a young woman, the aunt of the author, who was murdered. i don’t have a lot of words right now but please, pick up this book, you won’t regret it.
This was an incredibly haunting collection. Naturally I started and finished it instead of doing reading for class. The book focuses on the author's exploration of her aunt's murder in the 1960's--the poems are a beautiful mix of abstract emotions, reactions, and narratives of the events surrounding it.
Her grave has no epitaph, only a name / I found her in the wild; her name was Jane, plain Jane.
I don't know a lot about poetry, but I know that I loved this. I thought it was so moving while also being creepy and ominous and hopeful all at the same time. Getting some insight into Jane herself through her diary entries was fantastic. If you're wanting to read The Red Parts, which is Maggie Nelson's account of the trial of Jane's murderer, read this one first. It gives a good background and it's haunting to read Maggie Nelson writing as though she would never find out who killed her aunt, not knowing that very soon after the book was published, things would come into the light.
I don't know a lot about poetry, but I know that I loved this. I thought it was so moving while also being creepy and ominous and hopeful all at the same time. Getting some insight into Jane herself through her diary entries was fantastic. If you're wanting to read The Red Parts, which is Maggie Nelson's account of the trial of Jane's murderer, read this one first. It gives a good background and it's haunting to read Maggie Nelson writing as though she would never find out who killed her aunt, not knowing that very soon after the book was published, things would come into the light.