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



A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024



WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY



FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY



Published here in a must-listen edition, 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.''