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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
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Beautifully written, very emotional.
“My relatives all say
Jane wanted to change the world
Then they add
None of us can”
Jane wanted to change the world
Then they add
None of us can”
This book is my current favorite for 2021. I’ve never read a book of poetry so linear and straightforward, while simultaneously being so impactful. I strongly recommend.
Maggie Nelson can do no wrong! This is amazing and if anything I just wanted more. In a series of poems Nelson was able to induce so many feeling in me. She was working with so little information yet able to write so eloquently about Jane and her mother and her self.
This book is so wholly unique--part narrative, part mystery, part true crime, part memoir, part scrapbook, all poetry, and it works dangerously well together. I've been a fan of Nelson's work since I read The Argonauts in college, so I wasn't expecting to be let down by this one that I've heard so much about, and I really, truly wasn't.
This collection is deeply personal and poignant. The juxtaposition of Nelson's words with that of her aunts diaries and letters (the words of which read as though they knew their destiny was to be restructured into poetry all along) make a perfect pairing, as Nelson had been told her aunt lived on in her for her whole life.
What a devastating and glorious book. Highly recommended.
This collection is deeply personal and poignant. The juxtaposition of Nelson's words with that of her aunts diaries and letters (the words of which read as though they knew their destiny was to be restructured into poetry all along) make a perfect pairing, as Nelson had been told her aunt lived on in her for her whole life.
What a devastating and glorious book. Highly recommended.
Made me cry on the subway! This semi-narrative book of poetry is so tenderly written that by the end, no one I know has escaped without a few tears. Nelson is, as ever, an exceptional poet capable of writing beautiful work that seems to linger in a reader’s mind long after the book has been shut. Her yearning to know Jane, to connect with her, even to avenge her is palpable and consuming. As soon as I finished this book, I flipped back to the first page and read it again. Gorgeous, suspenseful, and deeply touching, a must read.
I love this book. It's brilliance is quiet. In every poem, I came across surprising grace. Nelson includes the diaries of her late aunt, Jane, who had a brilliant grasp on the adverse calamity that is being alive. Those diaries sang to me;
"Why cant I always be happy and content? Why must life get so mixed up sometimes?"
"Why cant I always be happy and content? Why must life get so mixed up sometimes?"
Fascinating and thoughtful read. Definitely need to read more of Maggie Nelsons work now!!
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dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
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