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Book SynopsisAnne 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.”
Trade Review"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 recherché 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
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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
