![]() ![]() The contents arrive not between two covers but in a box about the size of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. “Nox” is as much an artifact as a piece of writing. It is also a personal, and deeply moving, meditation on the contours of absence. The notebook itself is that headstone now published as “Nox” (New Directions $29.95), it has the squat gray aspect of a stone tablet. ![]() After his death, she began to construct a notebook of memories, or, as she puts it, “an epitaph.” It is a curious word-usually it refers to a commemorative inscription on a plaque or headstone, but Michael’s ashes were scattered into the sea. Michael had run away from home in 1978, and he and Anne had spoken a half-dozen times in all the years since. It took two weeks for the news to reach Carson, a Canadian-born classicist and poet, because Michael’s widow couldn’t find her number in her husband’s papers. In 2000, Anne Carson’s older brother Michael died unexpectedly in Copenhagen. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |