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Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire
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by Carole Maso

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In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized by genre, Maso is an incisive, compassionate writer who deems herself daughter of William Carlos Williams, a pioneer in combining poetry and fiction with criticism, journalism, and the visual arts. She is daughter, too, of Allen Ginsberg, who also came from Paterson, New Jersey. Known for her audacity, whether exploring language and memory or the development of the artistic soul, Maso here gives us a form-challenging collection, intelligent, and persuasive.

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  • Title Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire
  • Author Carole Maso
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC, Washington D. C.
  • Publication date 2000-04-14
  • ISBN 9781582430638 / 1582430632
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.76 x 5.74 x 0.77 in (22.25 x 14.58 x 1.96 cm)
  • Reading level 860
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00022649
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.54

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  • Library Journal, 05/01/2000, Page 112
  • New York Times, 06/11/2000, Page 23
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/01/2000, Page 65

About the author

Carole Maso is the author of ten books: Ghost 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, and Mother & Child. 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.

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