"Funny and smart" (The New Yorker) criticism of why we turn to
art--specifically to poetry and popular music--and how it serves as
an essential tool to understanding life.How 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 Equipment for Living. 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. As
Dwight Garner said in The New York Times about Robbins: "This man
can write." Equipment for Living is a "freakishly original" (Elle)
look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music,
can help us understand our own lives.
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