Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music

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Art as life's coping mechanism: poetry and pop.

"Equipment for Living" is a compelling exploration for anyone who's been moved by a song lyric or a line of poetry and wondered why. Michael Robbins masterly blends high culture with pop culture to create a conversation that's as profound as it is accessible. If you're someone looking to understand how the arts provide us with tools to navigate life's chaos, Robbins offers a fresh and intellectually stimulating perspective that will deepen your appreciation for the power of words and sounds in our everyday existence.

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Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music

Regular price RM159.49 MYR
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ISBN: 9781476747095
Authors: Michael Robbins
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2017-07-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Philosophy, Creative Nonfiction, Music
Related Topics: Pop Culture, Essays
Goodreads rating: 3.7
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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—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, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.
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Art as life's coping mechanism: poetry and pop.

"Equipment for Living" is a compelling exploration for anyone who's been moved by a song lyric or a line of poetry and wondered why. Michael Robbins masterly blends high culture with pop culture to create a conversation that's as profound as it is accessible. If you're someone looking to understand how the arts provide us with tools to navigate life's chaos, Robbins offers a fresh and intellectually stimulating perspective that will deepen your appreciation for the power of words and sounds in our everyday existence.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.