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Break, Blow, Burn

Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

By Paglia Camille

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America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia refreshes our understaContinue

America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia refreshes our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” to Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” from Donne’s “The Flea” to Lowell’s “Man and Wife,” and from Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to Plath’s “Daddy.”

Paglia also introduces us to less-familiar works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut–and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn will excite even seasoned poetry lovers, and create a generation of new ones.

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  • It's a pretty bold claim to make that you're choosing the "world's" best poems. I don't know that I would necessarily agree with that assessment.

    Having said that, even if the poems in this anthology are familiar to you, you'll still greatly benefit from and enjoy the close reading of each of ... (continue)

    It's a pretty bold claim to make that you're choosing the "world's" best poems. I don't know that I would necessarily agree with that assessment.

    Having said that, even if the poems in this anthology are familiar to you, you'll still greatly benefit from and enjoy the close reading of each of the poems chosen.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 272 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0375725393
  • ISBN-13: 9780375725395
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jan 24, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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