--- product_id: 3696305 title: "Nox" price: "R$791" currency: BRL in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/3696305-nox store_origin: BR region: Brazil --- # Nox **Price:** R$791 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Nox - **How much does it cost?** R$791 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.br](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/3696305-nox) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Nox [Carson, Anne] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nox Review: Her glory. If only . . . - I adore Anne Carson. She may well be our (the English language’s) most compelling (insert “greatest” if you will) living poet. And I believe that NOX is (so far – hint hint) her masterwork. Poets must be in their essential being lateral above vertical thinkers. And she is supreme. All enters in, yet all belongs. And even a modestly attentive reader will easily be drawn in, and across and into their own thinking, their own lives. However, my “review” is mostly an entreaty. To Anne Carson, to New Directions. Though I completely understand the necessity of the folding structure of this work, I long for a “reading copy”. A paperback – even, heaven help us, a Kindle edition – so that I might more easily take it with me when I go . . . even a very small formatted paperback I could stick in my pocket, as readers used to do in the OLD DAYS. I need this work as a book to be with me, in addition to its marvelous place on my desk, ready to be unfolded . . . but only there with plenty of room to do so. Review: 'night, Brother - "No matter how I try to evoke the starry lad he was, it remains a plain, odd history." More an experience than a read, "Nox" by Anne Carson splices abstraction--definitions, quotations, lessons in ancient Greek history--with the concrete specificity of family photographs, handwritten letters, and personal recollections that attempt to contain a fragile and fragmented relationship. Carson's brother, who led a transitory and difficult life, has died in Copenhagen. And now Carson, in the manner of Catallus (poem 101), must go to see her brother's widow, the city where he lived, and the church he was brought to when he died. In words and images, and in words as images, Carson creates a landscape that mirrors memory--a continuous accordion-folded page that backdrops black and white snapshots, yellowing letters, cancelled stamps, and cut-out text. Most striking are the photos that include shadows, and texts that Carson repeats, strikes out, or blurs. Also haunting is the way this collage seems so very real on the reproduced page: edges of paper-on-paper look sharp and true, or wrinkled from too much glue; staples seem raised, shiny and cold; even the reverse-embossing of handwriting forces this reader to touch and expect to feel the raised imprint of a ball-point pen, as if, in feeling, the question is asked: is this real? Carson explains, "History and elegy are akin." In questioning, "are these staples real?" or "who was this brother?" we share in the act of asking, of composing the story and creating history. In her distilled and disjointed--yet accessible--way, Carson compels questions, collects facts--or shards of them--and assembles a beautiful, tactile, white-space filled elegy that honors a brother who, later in life, she barely knew. "You have survived it, " Carson writes, "and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself." Carson has fashioned a thing that carries itself, a work of poetry and prose that stands on its own as book and non-book, object and message: an account of one's life as an extraordinary ordinary thing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #89,702 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #65 in Death, Grief & Loss Poetry (Books) #81 in Ancient & Classical Poetry #167 in Poetry by Women | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (241) | | Dimensions | 6.1 x 2.6 x 9.4 inches | | Edition | Illustrated | | ISBN-10 | 0811218708 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0811218702 | | Item Weight | 2 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 192 pages | | Publication date | April 27, 2010 | | Publisher | New Directions | ## Images ![Nox - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61vafJnWekL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Her glory. If only . . . *by A***N on April 24, 2018* I adore Anne Carson. She may well be our (the English language’s) most compelling (insert “greatest” if you will) living poet. And I believe that NOX is (so far – hint hint) her masterwork. Poets must be in their essential being lateral above vertical thinkers. And she is supreme. All enters in, yet all belongs. And even a modestly attentive reader will easily be drawn in, and across and into their own thinking, their own lives. However, my “review” is mostly an entreaty. To Anne Carson, to New Directions. Though I completely understand the necessity of the folding structure of this work, I long for a “reading copy”. A paperback – even, heaven help us, a Kindle edition – so that I might more easily take it with me when I go . . . even a very small formatted paperback I could stick in my pocket, as readers used to do in the OLD DAYS. I need this work as a book to be with me, in addition to its marvelous place on my desk, ready to be unfolded . . . but only there with plenty of room to do so. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'night, Brother *by E***N on May 31, 2010* "No matter how I try to evoke the starry lad he was, it remains a plain, odd history." More an experience than a read, "Nox" by Anne Carson splices abstraction--definitions, quotations, lessons in ancient Greek history--with the concrete specificity of family photographs, handwritten letters, and personal recollections that attempt to contain a fragile and fragmented relationship. Carson's brother, who led a transitory and difficult life, has died in Copenhagen. And now Carson, in the manner of Catallus (poem 101), must go to see her brother's widow, the city where he lived, and the church he was brought to when he died. In words and images, and in words as images, Carson creates a landscape that mirrors memory--a continuous accordion-folded page that backdrops black and white snapshots, yellowing letters, cancelled stamps, and cut-out text. Most striking are the photos that include shadows, and texts that Carson repeats, strikes out, or blurs. Also haunting is the way this collage seems so very real on the reproduced page: edges of paper-on-paper look sharp and true, or wrinkled from too much glue; staples seem raised, shiny and cold; even the reverse-embossing of handwriting forces this reader to touch and expect to feel the raised imprint of a ball-point pen, as if, in feeling, the question is asked: is this real? Carson explains, "History and elegy are akin." In questioning, "are these staples real?" or "who was this brother?" we share in the act of asking, of composing the story and creating history. In her distilled and disjointed--yet accessible--way, Carson compels questions, collects facts--or shards of them--and assembles a beautiful, tactile, white-space filled elegy that honors a brother who, later in life, she barely knew. "You have survived it, " Carson writes, "and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself." Carson has fashioned a thing that carries itself, a work of poetry and prose that stands on its own as book and non-book, object and message: an account of one's life as an extraordinary ordinary thing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by A***L on August 7, 2025* Creo que nadie ha dominado el duelo y el libro objeto como Carson ## Frequently Bought Together - Nox - Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton Classics) - Autobiography of Red --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/3696305-nox](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/3696305-nox) --- *Product available on Desertcart Brazil* *Store origin: BR* *Last updated: 2026-04-30*