Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music Condition:Well Read For the poor

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Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music Condition:Well Read For the poorBrilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poeta 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 senseor nonsenseof 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