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Break, Blow, Burn
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems | Camille Paglia
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Americas 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 Shakespeares Sonnet 73 to Shelleys Ozymandias, from Donnes The Flea to Lowells Man and Wife, and from Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death to Plaths Daddy. Paglia also introduces us to less-familiar works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Krautand 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Paglia has chosen 43 great poems to analyse and understand, with her fierce intelligence and insight. This certainly sparks an appreciation for poetry

dabbe One of my all-time fave poems. 🩵🖤💙 1y
AllDebooks @dabbe it's beautiful 😍 1y
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A pretty good mix of fiction and non-fiction planned reading for June.
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Bring on the sun, G&T's and a whole lot of relaxation 😌 🍸

AllDebooks The hashtags I haven't tagged anyone in are run by me. I also have a #chunkstermini and a #chunkster this month @Amiable Plenty to keep me busy and out of trouble 😊 2y
TheHeartlandBookFairy Fantastic! 2y
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Librarybelle Looks wonderful!! 2y
Andrew65 Best of luck with June‘s reading plans. 😁 2y
TheSpineView Good luck! 2y
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rwmg Looking at the picture, I thought it was called "Break Camilla Blow" 6y
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Working through this as party of my poetry challenge, so here‘s my #riotgrams day two, currently reading!