Wrong Norma

<p><strong>A <em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024</strong></p><p><strong>WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY</strong></p><p><strong>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY</strong></p><p>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 <em>The New Yorker</em> and <em>The</em> <em>Paris Review</em>. As Carson writes: “<em>Wrong Norma</em> 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.’" </p>