![]() ![]() ![]() Written largely in unrhymed verse, Jane: A Murder juxtaposes its couplets and tercets amid a plotting of journal entries, personal letters, conversational snippets, news reports, and philosophical quotes, conjuring a vivid image of Nelson’s maternal aunt, Jane, a kindred spirit murdered by a serial killer four years before the author was born. Jane: shot, strangled, and left shoeless in a backroad cemetery. Jane: a wildly intelligent, fiercely independent grad school student. ” Within that book - Jane: A Murder (2005) - the subject (she) and object (the gunshot head) set the coordinates. Maggie Nelson’s first book of nonfiction begins with a perfectly balanced sentence: “She had been shot once in the front and once in the back of the head. ![]() Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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