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.
