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Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. More about this author >
From the publisher:
Published with images created by Carson, several of the 25 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.’”
Presented as a facsimile of collaged texts and images, Anne Carson’s Wrong Norma is a mesmerizing and virtuosic enactment of the astonishments of mind in the making of art and meaning. Unlinked passages and poems—having to do with skywriting, Flaubert, poverty, snow, Sokrates, and much else—converge in explosions of thought such that the world nevertheless discloses itself in a work of rare wit, intelligence, and poetic mastery.
