Full name: Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire

Author: Carole Maso Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582430638 1582430632

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. Similar books: Literary Occasions by V. S. Naipaul Finding a Form by William H. Gass Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Toibin Encounter by Milan Kundera Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood Abinger Harvest by E. M. Forster The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee Mythologies by Roland Barthes Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing