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Camille Paglia: the always provocative cultural critic explodes the poetry canon
Interview, April, 2005 by Patrick Giles
When not leading the charge in America's ongoing culture wars, Interview contributing editor Camille Paglia channels her significant energy into the classroom, teaching at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. Her new book may be the latest fruit of that academic side, but in true Paglia style, don't expect Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon) to be jargon-laden or sleep-inducing.
It's about poetry, and it gives amusing, original, and irreverent readings of poems ranging from the verses we recited in school (Shakespeare, Donne) to poems we were never taught but should have been (Frank O'Hara, Joni Mitchell--yes, that Joni Mitchell). Break, Blow, Burn will be a blast to read this month, National Poetry Month, although we can't imagine Laura Bush quoting from it during her next White House poetry reading.
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