CARSON, Anne.
Nox.
New York: New Directions, 2010.
$2,750.00
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Item Number: RRB-153812
+$500
First Edition of Nox; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Anne Carson in the Year of Publication
First edition of this haunting and beautiful work by the Nobel Prize-winning author; a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out “book in a box.” Octavo, designed as a facsimile of a handmade, accordion-folded artist's book enclosed in a grey solander box. Boldly signed and dated by Anne Carson and dated in the year of publication. This was signed in November 2010 at The Southbank Centre Poetry International Festival in London. Fine in a fine clamshell 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 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. 50 color and black-and-white prints.
Nox.
$2,750.00
In Stock
