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Equipment for Living : on Poetry and Pop Music by Michael Robbins is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Equipment for Living : on Poetry and Pop Music about?
Brilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poet—a refreshing, insightful look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living.How can art help us make sense of the world? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all.Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins's mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. His singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick's "Cups") will change the way you listen to music and read poetry. He weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, inspiring deep thoughts on the subject that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Michael Robbins
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476747095
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (46 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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