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Nox
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rooze
, January 01, 2013
An elegy, an exploration, a seeking, an unconventional epitaph: Nox collects Anne Carson's fragments of photographs, notes, working translation (and discussion) of Catullus' poem #101, letters, envelopes and other pieces into a singular work pivoting on the death of her brother, Michael. Carson meticulously submerges the reader into the experience of grief, the process of mourning, and the struggle to find a way to communicate when language itself would not suffice. Like many liminal works, Nox informs the reader how to approach it based on its own presentation: containing a scroll, one long work, Nox is meant to be navigated, to unfold; the use of space is a reflection of the muteness of Carson's relationship with her brother; the running translation of the Latin poem is an act of translating grief into language and a reflection of the limitations of language to capture it. Nox is a deeply moving and multifaceted work, one that provides deeper appreciation upon each rereading.
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Sulpicia
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This "book," which I place in quotation marks because it not strictly speaking a book, is incredible. It is, rather, a box with an accordion-like visual-and-prose poem and at the same time, an associative reading of Catullus 101. The Catullus poem is beautiful, as is Anne Carson's work. While being a poem and a journey in grief, she calls it an "epitaph," it is also a character study and a postmodern novel; the readers must flesh out the complicated lives of the characters through (often literal) fragments of letters and cryptic thoughts scrawled across the pages. It is an engaging read which develops a sort of ethos of sadness as well as a spirit inquiry. I highly recommend it.
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Floyce M. Alexander
, January 28, 2011
Anne Carson is a kind of Coltrane of poetry--she loves to experiment and rarely if ever attempts the same kind of book twice. In addition, she renders some of the most readable (much less playable) English versions of Sappho, Catullus (here), Aeschylus, Euripides . . . NOX is an unrepeatable book--its materials ensure its form as sui generis. More important is the passion, the love, the grieving, the healing of mourning . . .
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kora
, January 21, 2011
This work is an example of the book as a physical sculptural work of art. The poem as a monument to memory and mourning. Powerfully imaginative in both form and content, Nox is a haunting, uncanny work that transforms the ephemeral into a fixed work you can hold -- and that will hold onto you.
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mary stump
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For effing the ineffable in interesting ways.
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Product Details
ISBN:
9780811218702
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
04/27/2010
Publisher:
W W NORTON & CO
Pages:
192
Height:
2.75IN
Width:
5.25IN
Thickness:
2.50
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2010
UPC Code:
4294967295
Author:
Anne Carson
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
Epitaphs
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