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

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ISBN-10: 0375725393

ISBN-13: 9780375725395

Edition: N/A

Authors: Camille Paglia

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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 wethoughtwe 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…    
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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.99" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

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Introduction
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 29
The Ghost's Speech
"The Flea"
Holy Sonnet I
Holy Sonnet XIV
"Church-monuments"
"The Quip"
"Love"
"To His Coy Mistress"
"The Chimney Sweeper"
"London"
"The World Is Too Much with Us"
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge"
"Ozymandias"
"Kubla Khan"
Song of Myself
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
"Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers"
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society"
"The Second Coming"
"Leda and the Swan"
"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
"Anecdote of the Jar"
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"This Is Just to Say"
"Georgia Dusk"
"Jazzonia"
"Cuttings"
"Root Cellar"
"The Visitant"
"Man and Wife"
"Daddy"
"A Mexican Guitar"
"The Once-Over"
"At East River"
"Old Pond"
"The Tornado"
"A Paragraph Made Up of Seven Sentences"
"My Makeup"
"Wanda Why Aren't You Dead"
"Corner"
"Woodstock"
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
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