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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems [Buy it!] | Camille Paglia | USD 13.50 (Sun May 26 22:00:03 2024) | Abebooks | Strand Book Store, ABAA | ISBN10: 0375420843, ISBN13: 9780375420849, [publisher: Pantheon Books] Hardcover America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including solme surprising discoveries of her own. Camille Paglia brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Lowell, and Plath. And she hails the songwriter Joni Mitchell as a major contemporary poet. Infused with her inimitable style and passion, this book - and the dazzling mind behind it- will entice readers to begin or renew a passionate engagement with poetry. Paglia is the author of 'Sexual Personae' and 'Vamps and Tramps.' Bibliography. 247p. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005] |