Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years 'Effortlessly
readable and - a word critics don't often use about her - fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'I'm a big
fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' TEJU COLE As with her most
recent publications Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book
drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces
have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review . Anne Carson
is probably our most celebrated living poet winner of countless awards and routinely tipped
for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent asking that her books be published
without cover copy she has agreed to say this: Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about
different things like Joseph Conrad Guantanamo Flaubert snow poverty Roget's Thesaurus
my Dad Saturday night Sokrates writing sonnets forensics encounters with lovers the word
"idea" the feet of Jesus and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called
them "wrong".
