Wrong Norma

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Uncompromisingly intelligent, while being effortlessly readable, and - a word critics don't often use about Carson - fun * Daily Telegraph * I'm a big fan of her work... There's a joy in encountering a mind that takes nothing for granted... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism -- Teju Cole, author of Tremor Wrong Norma is the poet at her best: humorous, whimsical, erudite, moving, unpretentious * Times Literary Supplement * Reading this astounding, virtuosic book is a sampling of interiority. It is extraordinary because the form partakes the unjoined nature of human thought.... A triumph of a book * Observer * Carson's latest work displays her brilliance and originality through a series of hybrid, free-flowing text interspersed with images and digressions... These prose poems evince clarity, precision and attention * Guardian * She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote -- Susan Sontag, author of Against Interpretation Powerfully moving... Wrong Norma can also be funny... Full of wit, pain and the wonder of language * Spectator * Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigor, the relentless search for evidence, the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life * New York Magazine * Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today -- Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. The poems play with character and plot, myth and magic; they are rich with attitude and wit and the undertow of grief. If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius -- Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn