Wrong Norma

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

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

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.’" 

 
 Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.