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Wrong Norma
- Author
- Anne Carson
- Narrator
- Eva Wilhelm
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 25 August 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Anne Carson's first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016)
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
Published here in a must-listen edition, 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, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them 'wrong.'"
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Details
- Author
- Anne Carson
- Narrator
- Eva Wilhelm
- Duration
- 4 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9798318517181
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Poetry, Poetry
Synopsis
Anne Carson's first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016)A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYPublished here in a must-listen edition, 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, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them 'wrong.'" 
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