Now beautifully repackaged with a striking new cover, Beauty is Convulsive is the second of Counterpoint's Carol Maso reissues
A series of admiring and critically engaging prose poems, Beauty is Convulsive is a literary ode to an artistic powerhouse, Frida Kahlo
Maso's best known novel is Defiance, published in 1998. She is a professor of literary arts at Brown University in Providence, RI, where she has taught since 1995.
