PositiveThe Kenyon ReviewLess a book than an art object (though the distinction is dubious) ... Throughout Nox, the light switch is toggled on, and then off again—and \'translation\' comes to indicate not just the endeavor to move from one expression to its contextual equivalent, but to separate the inseparable, to parse the influx of history into the present and the present back into history ... The materiality of Nox is impossible to sift from its poetry, from its function, which is primarily elegiac.