![]() ![]() “The spectre of our eventual ‘becoming object’ - of our (live) flesh one day turning into (dead) meat - is a shadow that accompanies us throughout our lives,” Nelson writes in her ranging critical study, The Art of Cruelty (2011). ![]() 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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