A review by romeri
Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

How does one even write a book like this, so haunting and beautiful, full of love and grief? 
How does Maggie Nelson walk around with so much talent in her, without its sheer heaviness dragging her down?
Mother, the Christian hypocrite
and I, of her blood. Under
her influence — how much am I —
and I love her — at least
if I can love at all
I do.
(68)
For a book about a rape-murder within the family, it is not as dense as I expected and surprisingly easy to get through. It is not conventional poetry, more like a story written in verse.   
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