RaveFull StopCarson takes us into grief but also the process of computing it, while simultaneously allowing us to witness the impossible project of translating it from private to public experience ... The book, the thing that carries itself, is composed with a fierce sense for its materiality ... seething with life ... the role of argument and logic in Nox is to show how inadequate these devices are, but never to mock them, or our reliance on them; more importantly, Carson demonstrates and observes the way we persistently use what we can, what is available, to capture unspeakable, unattainable experience ... Carson’s voice is candid, uncompromising, full of furious calculation ... Nox is mystifying and exquisite, and, to reverse Carson’s metaphor, it opens doors that won’t close—even once you fold the book back into its box, you remain inside it.
