a wrinkled square of yellow paper containing a ten-line Latin poem--untranslated, unattributed, and unlabeled save for the Roman numeral CI. Anyone who is not (as [Anne] Carson is) a classical scholar will most likely be stymied. But, right away, Nox begins to help. Its next page offers a dictionary definition of the poem's first word, multas ("numerous, many . . ."), and this continues as the book moves forward: Most of Nox's left-hand pages give dictionary entries that lead us, word by word, through the poem. It's like an ancient linguistic detective story, or Latin 101.from New York Magazine: Family Album
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