| #128220 in Books | Vintage | 2006-01-24 | 2006-01-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.80 x5.20l,.61 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | Great product!||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| "Breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head"|By Gary Griffiths|From the title's clever juxtaposition of John Donne's Metaphysics and 1950's Beat poets to Joni's Mitchell's whimsical "Woodstock" - the author's tacit declaration that poetry died with Flower Power - Camille Paglia's "Break, Blow, Burn" is a sexually charged sensory overload that drags over four centuries of western|From Publishers Weekly|The still-vocal critic of Sexual Personae, a book that drew on poetry and painting for its de-deconstructions of gender, checks in with an anthology of 43 poems, along with her own close readings of them. Her introduction offers a j
America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman,...
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