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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads
Forty-three of the World’s Best Poems is destined
to become a landmark. In it, America’s premier intellectual
provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems
of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries
of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding
of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare,
Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us
to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we may not
be familiar, such as Chuck Wachtel and Wanda Coleman. And
she hails the songwriter Joni Mitchell as a major contemporary
poet.
Daring, erudite, entertaining, and infused
throughout with Paglia’s inimitable style and passion,
this beautifully written book--and the dazzling mind behind
it—will entice readers
to begin or renew a passionate engagement with poetry.
Camille Paglia is University
Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of Sexual
Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson;
Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps &
Tramps: New Essays. She has also written The Birds,
a study of Alfred Hitchcock. She lives in Philadelphia.
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