from Eternity and the Dreamer

Carole Maso is the author of ten books, including the novels The Art Lover (New Directions, 2017), Ava (Dalkey Archive Press, 2002), and Mother & Child (Counterpoint, 2013); a collection of essays, Break Every Rule (Counterpoint, 2010); two collections of poems in prose, Aureole (Ecco, 1996) and Beauty Is Convulsive (Counterpoint, 2020); and a memoir, The Room Lit by Roses (Counterpoint, 2002). She has recently completed a novel, Why So Soon Asleep? Eternity and the Dreamer is her novel-in-progress. Maso is professor emerita at Brown University.