Wrong Norma is Anne Carsons first book of original material in eight yearsNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR POETRYEffortlessly readable and a word critics dont often use about her fun DAILY TELEGRAPHIm a big fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism TEJU COLEAs with her most recent publications Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original handdesigned book drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twentyfive 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 thisWrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things like Joseph Conrad Guantanamo Flaubert snow poverty Rogets 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. Thats why Ive called them wrong.