Created after the death of her brother, 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." Illustrations.
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Created after the death of her brother, 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." Illustrations.
Description
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.
Awards
Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2010
Critic Reviews
“"Trust me: it's an Anne Carson book. Maybe her best....The book is totally recherch”
"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 the Author
Anne Carson (June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions of her books simply states Anne Carson lives in Canada.
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