nox
i ordered nox by anne carson and it arrived monday. it is the book i wish i had created:
it is one long accordion fold of text/image/collage, housed in a clamshell box.
written after her brother died, the author’s visual exploration of grief is familiar to me.
the ephemera/photos/collages/clippings convey what written words cannot say.
i want to devour it up all in one sitting… but i also want to savor every page.
May 12th, 2010 at 6:23 am
ooh, this looks so special.
May 12th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Wow, it looks amazing.
May 12th, 2010 at 9:24 am
it looks very special! beautiful
May 12th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Anne Carson! Whoa, now there’s a name I haven’t heard since my MFA experimental poetry days. And you read Gertrude Stein. How awesome (frickin’ awesome) are you?
May 14th, 2010 at 11:25 am
wow! that is a book i would like to have.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Indeed that does look an incredible book! I would like to echo Sonya – How frickin awesome are you??
And quite frankly I think you could create a book like this!
May 19th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Holy cow, I love it when publishers take a leap of faith and produce something akin to an artist book. I’ll have to check this one out.
Have you seen “Manhattan Unfurled” by Matteo Pericoli? It’s a horizontal accordion book of one long continuous drawing of all the buildings along the “edges” (coast) of Manhattan. I think it might still be in print…check it out!