Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia

Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia

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.

Includes a new epilogue that details the selection process for choosing the 43 poems presented in this book and provides commentary on some of the pieces that didn't make the final cut.

Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Vamps & Tramps; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Sexual Personae.

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ISBN 13	9780375420849
ISBN 10	0375420843
Title	Break, Blow, Burn
Author	Camille Paglia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-06-06
Number of pages	247
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