Monday, March 07, 2005

Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

This book looks interesting
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems.

My Russian students were disappointed that Americans didn't seem to read more poetry. I told them we used to, in the past, and we read Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe in class.

Perhaps Paglia can help rescue American poetry...