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Nox Anne Carson (New Directions)

Nox By Anne Carson (New Directions)

Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions)


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Summary

Anne Carson's haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years-a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out book in a box.

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Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions)

Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus for his brother who died in the Troad. Nox is a work of poetry, but arrives as a fascinating and unique physical object. Carson pasted old letters, family photos, collages and sketches on pages. The poems, typed on a computer, were added to this illustrated book creating a visual and reading experience so amazing as to open up our concept of poetry.

Nox Reviews

The book is an extraordinary object to behold, and more extraordinary to read, but it's hardly accurate to even call it a 'book.' It's perhaps 10 feet of paper, folded accordion-like, displaying as near a reproduction of Carson's original collage journal as is possible. The whole thing is folded and packed into a beautiful gray box....The result is breathtaking, evidence of visionary publishing at a moment when the book business is increasingly cynical. -- Publishers Weekly
Trust me: it's an Anne Carson book. Maybe her best....The book is totally recherche and weirdly clear, lingered over and neatly boxed. Precious in the word's best sense. -- Ben Ratliff - The New York Times Book Review
Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound's injunction 'Make It New' been so spectacularly obeyed. -- The New York Review of Books
Anne Carson is a poet who likes to get under people's skin. -- Melanie Rehak - The New York Times Magazine
Rarely has forking over thirty dollars felt like such a solemn act of memorial. -- New York Review of Books
Nox's intelligence, sadness, and wry humor alone might be enough, but its form takes me even more. To read is sensual. You handle the folds, opening one winged pair at a time or in quick, slinky unfurlings. And this read is not linear, with pages dissolving behind you as you turn, but spatial, more like letting your eyes wander a room. With the whole book unfurled you see it entire and make links among images, like a staircase or an egg that reappear folds apart, and among words like ash, festive, blush. You prowl the book itself. -- The Millions
She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote. -- Susan Sontag

About Anne Carson (New Directions)

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.

Additional information

CIN0811218708VG
9780811218702
0811218708
Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2009-12-14
192
Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2010
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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