Nox
An MM Paranormal Romance

I'm pretty thoroughly depressed after reading this. Actually after reading it twice in one sitting and after watching the second half of Kieślowski's sixth film in the Decalogue series I'm now feeling pretty fucking bleak. Both the film and this book deal with the unknowableness of the other. In the......more

If, possibly, one could describe what Nox is as a work of abstract poetry it could possibly be considered a kind of meta-elegy. Because, in many different ways Nox is a haunting work that talks about the elegiac mode while existing as an elegy in and of itself. The title itself appears to be from th......more

An exploration of loss, of death and absence, in Anne Carson's always unique cross-genre style. Here, Carson uses a poem famous in latin classes across the world, Catallus 101 (in which Catallus grieves the death of this brother) as a mirror in which to reflect the loss of her own estranged brother-......more

An elegy for an older brother Carson grew up with but she didn't know as an adult, really. The last twenty-two years of his life, she had five phone calls from him. Two weeks after he died she was contacted by his last wife, who revealed that the love of his life was really another woman he had neve......more

On the left hand pages Carson translates Catullus 101, from the Latin, by Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BCE–ca. 54 BCE), an elegy for his brother. “Many the peoples many the oceans I crossed- I arrive at these poor, brother, burials so I could give you the last gift owed to death and talk (why?) with......more