March 8, 2005

And she's starting by outwitting blog world nit wits . . .

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“Poets must remember their calling and take stage again!” says Camille Paglia in a new book, Break Blow Burn, which receives skeptical treatment in an item on The Drudge Report. Drudge says “authorprofessorcritic” Paglia “boldly declares” that “In our voracious 24-hour news cycles, we’re rafting down the roaring river of media. It’s exciting and exhilarating, but it’s good to remember that SOME things last—and they’re in art!” Drudge notes that Paglia has assembled poetry by John Donne, William Blake, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats and others, but that “The ENTIRE poetry establishment, all the honored, famous, adulated major living poets are excluded from the book!” Paglia, he says, “is once again hoping to outsmart lit world big wigs.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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