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by Carole Maso

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This biographical meditation explores the life of one of the 20th century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). The prose poem brings together parts of Kahlo's biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries with language that is often as erotic and colorful as Kahlo's paintings.

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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, Los Angeles Times


At 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.


A vibrant series of prose poems, Beauty Is Convulsive 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.

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  • Title Beauty Is Convulsive
  • Author Carole Maso
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC, Washington, DC
  • Publication date 2002-11
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781582430898 / 1582430896
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.7 x 0.75 in (22.81 x 14.48 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexico, Women painters
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002007470
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/2002, Page 728
  • Library Journal, 11/15/2002, Page 102
  • Multicultural Review, 06/01/2003, Page 64
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/25/2002, Page 42

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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