{"product_id":"beauty-is-convulsive-isbn-9781640092518","title":"Beauty is Convulsive","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Maso's incantatory description of her conjured–up subject's embrace takes on extraordinary power . . .  Like Frida Kahlo's painting—impossible to look away from.\" —Kai Maristed, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAt the age of eighteen, Frida Kahlo’s life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced through by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self–portraits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vibrant series of prose poems, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Is Convulsive\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate meditation on Frida Kahlo, one of the twentieth century’s most compelling artists. Carole Maso brings together pieces from Kahlo’s biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries to assemble a text that is as erotic, mysterious, and colorful as one of Kahlo’s paintings.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBeauty is Convulsive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Month\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maso's incantatory description of her conjured–up subject's embrace takes on extraordinary power . . .  like Frida Kahlo's painting—impossible to look away from.\" —Kai Maristed, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maso repeatedly cites Rivera's description of Kahlo's art as ascetic and tender, hard as steel and fire and delicate as a butterfly's wing, adorable as a beautiful smile and profound and cruel as life's bitterness. Without a doubt, one might apply these same words to Maso's precise and poetic prose, which brims with emotion, imagination, intelligence, and beauty.\" —Trey Strecker, \u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An utter original, one of the true and plangent voices in American writing.\" —Mary Gordon, author of \u003ci\u003eThere Your Heart Lies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] consistently inventive writer. Maso's prose has generated wide respect, making this an important purchase for libraries with literary fiction collections.\" —Carolyn Kuebler, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There's been more than enough written on Kahlo to fill bookstore display tables. This . . . may be one of the best.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maso, a highly original writer, distills her contemplation of Kahlo's indelible paintings and vital diaries and letters into a supple, discerning, and haunting prose poem, a biographical meditation that elegantly charts Kahlo's epic resiliency, artistic daring, unrelenting suffering, soul–saving ‘sense of the ridiculous,’ and glorious defiance. Maso's spare yet lyric tribute, a genuine communion, is a welcome antidote to the mawkishness and sensationalism that is starting to blur our appreciation for Kahlo's pioneering art and incandescent spirit.\" —Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarole Maso\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books: \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance, The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Defiance, Aureole, Break Every Rule, The Room Lit by Roses, Beauty Is Convulsive\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother \u0026amp; Child\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received numerous awards, including the Berlin Prize and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction. Maso is currently a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300463956197,"sku":"NP9781640092518","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640092518_59bd71b9-1101-42fd-9972-3df9c6644eb9.jpg?v=1767722326","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/beauty-is-convulsive-isbn-9781640092518","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}