Many JMDLers wrote to tell us about the inclusion of one of Joni's songs in Camille Paglia's latest book. Here's part of a review from washingtonpost.com:

Paglia concludes with the words to Joni Mitchell's Woodstock, a wonderful song about which she says baffling things: "This is an important modern poem -- possibly the most popular and influential poem composed in English since Sylvia Plath's Daddy. " The clichéd overstatement seems harmless, but the casual dismissal of all contemporary page-based poetry is not. Nor is the cavalier attitude toward music history: Is Woodstock more influential than Like a Rolling Stone or Anarchy in the U.K. or Rapper's Delight? After 200 pages of handy exegeses, it's a shame that Paglia ends her book with what looks less like literary (or cultural) criticism than a bid for attention or an expression of Baby Boomer myopia.