New Directions paperbook #1583

"A New Directions Book."

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 Hölderlin -- "We've only just begun" -- What I like about you, baby -- What to say of the entirety -- Todtnauberg -- Wrong Norma

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, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them 'wrong'"--

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