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010 $a 2017297079
020 $a9781476747095 (hbk.) :$cNT$840
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3618.O315244$bA6 2017
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100 1 $aRobbins, Michael,$d1972-
245 10$aEquipment for living :$bon poetry and pop music /$cMichael Robbins.
250 $aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2017.
300 $a207 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-207)
505 0 $aEquipment for living -- Wisconsin chair -- Holes -- Journey force -- The child that sucketh long -- Destroy your safe and happy lives -- Rhyme is a drug -- How to write a Charles Simic poem --Kill Rock Stars' memoirs -- Dark, dark,dark -- No taste of my own -- Real God, roll -- Red -- Make the machine sing -- Hooked up -- Visible republic -- Are you smeared with the juice of cherries? -- F
520 $a"How can art help us make sense--or nonsense--of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def L
650 0$aArt$xPhilosophy.
650 0$aArt$xHistory.
650 0$aPoetry.
650 0$aPoetry$xHistory and criticism.
650 0$aPopular music$xPhilosophy.
650 0$aPopular music$xHistory and criticism.