Description
An extraordinary elegy for a brother lost to distance, grief, and death, this work takes the form of a handmade keepsake rendered as an accordion-fold facsimile. Photographs, family letters, dictionary entries, collages, handwritten notes, and fragments of poetry gather around a searching engagement with Catullus’s famous lament for his own dead brother. Blending classical scholarship with intimate memory, it explores mourning, family estrangement, translation, and the limits of language to recover a vanished life. The result is a singular poetic object—fragmentary, tactile, and deeply moving—that captures the fractured experience of remembrance.
Available Editions
hardcover
New Directions
Published Apr 30, 2010
192 pages
ISBN: 9780811218849
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Nox by Anne Carson.