Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

Americas most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western traditionand 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, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Krautand even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry loversand continues to create generations of new ones.