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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.009
EAN: 9780375725395
ISBN: 0375725393
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 24, 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Sales Rank: 81355
Studio: Vintage
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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 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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Rating:  - Great for Everyone
This book is great for students, teachers, and "general readers." The introduction alone is worth the cover price, but you might not want to listen to me. I strongly oppose jargon-filled "literary theory" and instead celebrate logical (and sometimes emotional) close reading. Therefore, the introduction something I'd be proud to write.
Paglia's readings of the poems are just right: clear, concise, and not overdone. The poems she selected are, for the most part, logical choices, ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Primer
I have owned this book for a year and find that it equally instructive today as the first. Prof. Paglia provides a solid method for reading and thinking about poetry and other literary forms. Her ability to breakdown each poem and link it to other work made each "chapter" exciting.
Her final review, Joni Mitchell's Woodstock, was particularly insightful. Comparing Ms. Mitchell's performance to Crosby, Stoills, Nash and Young was particularly insightful.
Rating: - Explicating Shakespeare and Snyder - A critic takes on William and Gary, more
Camille Paglia, professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, made a name for herself in the larger culture with "Sexual Personae" and a series of books that examined, to use the title of another, "Sex, Art, and American Culture."
Always the provocateur, Paglia is saddened by "poetry's declining status" which "has made its embattled practitioners insular and self-protective." Desiring to reach a wider audience, she has produced a volume of explications of individual poems ... Read More
Rating: - It Breaks Blows and Burns
Paglia's book of commentary on poems gives close sensitive readings of classics. Each 3-4 page essay, an easy read when I have just a few minutes, deepens my understanding of feelings expressed through art. Familiar poems burn brighter after reading her thoughts.
Rating: - Her fresh writing, + 43 (mostly) great poems = success
This book is a real refreshment -- a shower of [mostly; I could have done without "Woodstock"] great poems, with just enough stirring, insightful commentary to draw the reader deep into the pool of each poem's meanings and pleasures. The format is very successful, with each typographically well-presented poem followed by three to five pages of thoughtful, extremely well written critique and commentary, including history, analysis, and politically fresh perspectives. Unlike other reviewers who didn't ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.009
EAN: 9780375725395
ISBN: 0375725393
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 24, 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Sales Rank: 81355
Studio: Vintage