Nox

Poetry

Anne Carson

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."

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 Catallus "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.

More Praise…

“In its very form, NOX embodies the complexity of loss.”

— Sarah Zimmerman, Print Mag

“...breathtaking, evidence of visionary publishing at a moment when the book business is increasingly cynical.”

Publisher's Weekly

“Carson has... created an individual form and style for narrative verse... Seldom has Pound's injunction 'Make It New' been so spectacularly obeyed.”

New York Review of Books