Camille Paglia April 20, 2005

Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems, the always-controversial Paglia brings her thirty-four years of teaching experience to bear on fourty-three poems by twenty-eight poets, from Shakespeare and Donne to Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath, to the song lyrics of Joni Mitchell. Paglia's sometimes surprising choices amount to a mini-canon of Western poetry over 400 years and will entice readers to begin or renew a passionate engagement with poetry.