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Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

  • Written by David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousnessEmilio Garcia/Unsplash

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

Sometimes the allusions are more buried than a quick Google allows for. The opening piece 1=1, for instance, is...

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