Without Asking 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, Scene of the
Crime--and her subsequent return to narrative in Bye-Bye, 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.