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Learning to Read Good Poetry as it Should Be Read |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Larry Thornberry |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/2006 |
| Size: 984 Words, 6,253 Characters |
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BREAK, BLOW, BURN: CAMILLE PAGLIA READS
FORTY-THREE OF THE WORLD'S BEST POEMS
Camille Paglia
Pantheon, $20, 247 pages
CamiIle Paglia has never been known as a conservationist. But her latest book, Break, Blow, Burn, is an attempt to help preserve a badly endangered species, the reader of poetry who has no connection with academe. Paglia--a university arts and literature teacher for more than thirty years--says in the first sentence of her introduction that her new book is for a general audience. So acute readers who've either given up on poetry or who've never cared much for it at all, should consider giving it a try. This well-done, small book may remind them, or convince them in the first place, that poetry can be a rewarding and occasionally intense intell...
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...mportant art form that has been receiving pretty shabby treatment--especially from academics, who should be protecting and nurturing it--for far too long. Poetry is a kind of experience that can't be gotten anywhere else, and an experience that rewards the time of thoughtful people. If I haven't convinced you of this, my bet is Camille Paglia will.
Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.
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