When She Saw What She Had Done: The Ballad of Lizzie Borden

A series of narrative poems detailing Lizzie Borden's life, her spiral into madness, the murder of her father and stepmother, and her life after the murders. In a series of thirty-five poems, Nicole Mello cleverly and vividly tells the story of a young woman whose life falls apart around her head and whose idea of a deep, true love is a hard, gruesome violence.