Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the author of several best-selling books including Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps and Tramps. In Break, Blow, Burn, Paglia provokes new understandings of old favorites including Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Shelly, and Langston Hughes, and introduces the work of less conventional poets, such as Chuck Wachtel and the fiery Wanda Coleman, in her bid to liberate poetry from stifling academic pedantry and jargon-ridden theory.