Wrong Norma

Carson, Anne, 1950- author.

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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, Guanta??namo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them 'wr...

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ISBN:

9780811230346

Edition:

First edition

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Notes:

"A New Directions Book."
"New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation"--Title page verso

Contents:

1=1
An evening with Joseph Conrad
Clive song
Dear Krito
Eddy
Flaubert again
Fate, federal Court, moon
Getaway
Lecture on the history of skydiving
Little racket
Mexico!
Oh what a night
Short talk on Homer and John Ashbery
Poverty remix (Sestina)
Saturday night as a adult
Snow
The visitors
Thret part I: we point the bone
Thret part II: Aspirin for travellers
Thret part III: swimming in Ho??lderlin
"We've only just begun"
What I like about you, baby
What to say of the entirety
Todtnauberg
Wrong Norma

LCCN:

2023030048

Control Number:

3318764

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