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We have our [adjective] winner!

By Levi Stahl ⋅ June 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Anne Carson Mad Libs contest has come to a close, and I’m here to announce the winners. First, a quick rehash of the contest itself: for a chance to win Carson’s stunning new book-in-a-box, Nox, I asked people to fill in the generic parts of speech–adjective, noun, etc.–I’d interpolated into some of Carson’s translations [...]

Bring on the Nox, or, An [adjective] [adjective] contest!

By Levi Stahl ⋅ May 28, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

We’re reviewing Nox in the Quarterly Conversation. Now, as New Directions was kind enough to send us an extra copy, let’s have a contest! If you want to enter the contest, leave your enhanced version of one or all of the fragments in the comments to this post before midnight Central Time on June 14th. Some rules:

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