Nox

#685

Title: Nox
Author: Anne Carson
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 2010
192 pages

I'm not sure I'd classify this as poetry. It's really a collage/pastiche/construction. I found it absorbing and meaningful, but even though its linguistic/structural core is a poem by Catullus, mourning his brother's death (hence, Carson's brother's death), I found it poetic but not a poem. Read with Carol Maso's The Art Lover to compare two ways to constellate language and images as a memorial.