{"product_id":"equipment-for-living-on-poetry-and-pop-music-9781476747101","title":"Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Funny and smart\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) criticism of why we turn to art--specifically to poetry and popular music--and how it serves as an essential tool to understanding life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow can art help us make sense--or nonsense--of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? 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 \u003ci\u003eEquipment for Living\u003c\/i\u003e. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick's \"Cups\"). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal music, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Dwight Garner said in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e about Robbins: \"This man can write.\" \u003ci\u003eEquipment for Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"freakishly original\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e) look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can help us understand our own lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476747101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Michael Robbins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42095610069173,"sku":"9781476747101","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c14d2658-bbfc-420b-8644-e32ea3eaf5b4.jpg?v=1651588160","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/equipment-for-living-on-poetry-and-pop-music-9781476747101","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}