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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems, by Camille Paglia (Pantheon, 272 pp., $20)
IN the ongoing cultural catastrophe, without doubt poetry has suffered the most. While our museums sometimes feel like Penn Station at rush hour, our concert halls are packed with geezers, Oprah Winfrey makes bestsellers out of One Hundred Years of Solitude and East of Eden, and new buildings can turn architects into international celebrities, poetry alone has succumbed to oblivion. At mid-century, T. S. Eliot filled the football stadium at the University of Minnesota; today, few college students could tell you who T. S. Eliot was. Oh, what a ...