He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. There you can also find more excepts, Paglia's spring tour schedule, and a chance to WIN a signed first edition of the book.Ī sudden blow: the great wings beating stillĪbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedīy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, Plus, additional links follow the text, including the official Web site for BREAK, BLOW, BURN, where Paglia proffers additional lists of her cultural favorites, from sculpture to scandal. Read on and you will discover Paglia's personal pick for "the greatest poem of the twentieth century." Provides intoxicatingly close readings by a fiercely provocative and generous diva.Ĭhapter Twenty-two follows in its entirety, ready for you to chew on and debate. Academic jargon is nowhere to be found Paglia's mission is to make these poems approachable and accessible in their full complexity. Paglia's discussion of each of the forty-three poems she presents-from the sonnets of Donne to Yeats to a song by Joni Mitchell-is no-nonsense, exuberant, rigorous, and celebratory. (The action-packed words of the book's title are from John Donne.) Throughout BREAK, BLOW, BURN, Paglia does what each of us who reads and works on Knopf Poem-a-Day hopes to do: she renews poetry's vitality and place of centrality in our culture. Today's poem is "Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats, with commentary by Camille Paglia from her new book, BREAK, BLOW, BURN: CAMILLE PAGLIA READS FORTY-THREE OF THE WORLD'S BEST POEMS-just released from Pantheon Books.
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