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Paglia was absent from Salon for a while due to the demands of working on her recent best-seller, Break, Blow, Burn, where she presented selected poetry along with commentary. Imagine.
A book of poetry criticism a best seller!
I suggest that Paglia consider a sequel to her best seller that would focus exclusively on my unpublished body of work, to be titled "Break, Blow, Burn - A New Hope." My oeuvre, which might be classified pre-apocalyptic media ecology, merges the sensitivity of traditional poetics with the sensibility of the modern technorati.
Among the unpublished masterpieces to be considered are:Ode to the Medium of a Grecian Urn(In which I contemplate the relationship between the figures on the outside of the urn with the ground grain on the inside.
This figure/ground dichotomy leads me to conclude that, to the ancient Greek, the content of the urn was of more importance than the urn itself.
In fact, all Grecian urns have been shown using x-ray technology to have the words "su ejpaggeliva autou" underneath the erotic or Homeric or homoerotic etchings, which translates roughly as "your ad here.")Beauty is truth, truth beauty — Burma Shave.Lacan and the SwanA sudden blow: the great wings beating still,and all of western literature lies helpless at his feet.IM to His Coy MistressHd we bt wrld enuff, & IM,This cynss, ldy, wre n crm.The Vast WastelandMay Sweeps are the cruelest month,breeding Idol ...
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