Without Asking

<p><em>Without Asking</em> marks Jane Ransom’s debut as a book author initially placing her within the poetic tradition of narrative Confessionalism. But one can already sense here the ambivalence that would lead both to a break from narrative—in her second poetry book <em>Scene of the</em><br /><em>Crime</em>—and her subsequent return to narrative in <em>Bye-Bye</em> her first novel. This is a writer whose epistemological inquiry continuously turns both inward and outward from linear to non-linear and back again in an unrelenting quest for Truth.</p>