Wrong Norma

Anne Carson

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Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigor, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life.

— Sam Anderson New York Magazine

Anne Carson’s first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016)

Available Feb, 06 2024

Wrong Norma

Literatureby Anne Carson

Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That’s why I’ve called them ‘wrong.’”

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9780811230346
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Page Count
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Portrait of Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Canadian poet, essayist and translator of Greek mythology

Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigor, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life.

— Sam Anderson New York Magazine

She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.

— Susan Sontag

I haven’t discovered any writing in years that’s so marvelously disturbing. I just feel so happy that she’s around.

— Alice Munro

Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty.

— Colm Tóibín