Without Asking - 9781586540869

Upon publication, Without Asking received widespread acclaim, including this in the New York Village Voice: Journalist Ransom's first collection of poems is like a sheaf of homunculus short stories. The scale is an inch to a mile, but these poems leave out nothing you could ask for in the best fiction: character, conflict, ambiguity, even plot. A couple of phrases and a metaphor do the work of whole chapters. Her subject is secrecy: an alcoholic father hides the empties as if they were Easter eggs," a lonely, terrifying brother throws his 13-year-old sister on the bed and begs her to make love with him. Recognizing that early pain can have complicated consequences, Ransom replaces self-pity with sympathy, anger, and honesty"--

• | Author: Jane Reavill Ransom
• | Publisher: Story Line Press
• | Publication Date: June 15, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 70 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1586540866
• | ISBN-13: 9781586540869