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ohhdeanna 's review for:
Jane: A Murder
by Maggie Nelson
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.