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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN MARCH 06, 2003 18:42:35 ET XXXXX PAGLIA WARNS INTERNET: ONLY ART LASTS **Exclusive** "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!" So boldly declares authorprofessorcritic Camille Paglia, on the eve of launching her new work: BREAK BLOW BURN. "Poets must remember their calling and take stage again!" PAGLIA PRESENTS: POETRY? More than 5 years in the making, media Paglia warns the digital age to: "Read poetry and FEED THE SOUL! Poetry makes you NOTICE things--to see significance in the insignificant." "It's mostly about ART and perception--about the obligation of each individual to awaken and expand his or her own consciousness." BREAK BLOW BURN is set to street on March 29. [It ranked at #26,225 on AMAZON's sale chart late Sunday.] The controversial author of VAMPS & TRAMPS, and SEXUAL PERSONAE is once again hoping to outsmart lit world big wigs. Paglia challenges: "At this time of foreboding about the future of Western culture, it is crucial to identify and preserve our finest artifacts... As a student of ancient empires, I am uncertain about whether the West's chaotic personalism can prevail against the totalizing creeds that menace it. Hence it is important that we reinforce the spiritual values of Western art, however we define them." Her new book is directed toward BOTH ends of the political/cultural spectrum. Paglia has selected religious poems in it (Donne, Herbert), as well as radical poems of social protest (Blake, Whitman). From canonical Renaissance verse to Joni Mitchell's Woodstock, there are poems about the all-devouring maelstrom of politics (Yeats) and also about the awesome vastness of nature and the cosmosess. [The ENTIRE poetry establishment, all the honored, famous, adulated major living poets are excluded from the book! Poet laureates, Nobel prize winners teaching at Harvard, none of their poems made the cut; Paglia's choices of contemporary poets are obscure or unknown.] "Paglia argues that critics can no longer read, poets can no longer write, and the unacknowledged legislators of our age are writing advertising jingles for peanuts," the LONDON TELEGRAPH says of BREAK BLOW BURN. Impacting... ----------------------------------------------------------- Filed By Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2005 Not for reproduction without permission of the author |
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