{"id":18241,"date":"2017-07-25T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18241"},"modified":"2017-07-25T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:26:07","slug":"18241_new-michael-robbins-book-equipment-for-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2017\/07\/25\/18241_new-michael-robbins-book-equipment-for-living\/","title":{"rendered":"New Michael Robbins Book: Equipment for Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Robbins, assistant professor in the Department of English, is the author of a new book published by Simon &amp; Schuster: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Equipment-for-Living\/Michael-Robbins\/9781476747095\" target=\"_blank\">Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music<\/a><\/em>. The book of criticism examines how works of art such as poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The book was reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/07\/31\/can-poetry-change-your-life\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Menand for the July 31, 2017 edition of <em>The New Yorker<\/em> under the title: &quot;The Defense of Poetry<\/a>.&quot;  <\/p>\n<p>Robbins is also the author of the poetry collections&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/310036\/alien-vs-predator-by-michael-robbins\/9780143120353\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alien vs. Predator<\/a><\/em> (2012) and<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/316810\/the-second-sex-by-michael-robbins\/9780143126645\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Second Sex<\/a><\/em> (2014). His poems, critical essays, and reviews have been included in publications such as: <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry<\/em>, <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em>, <em>London Review of Books<\/em>, and <em>BOOKFORUM<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>At Montclair State, Robbins teaches graduate and undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Poetry Writing, Intermediate Poetry Workshop, and Modern American Poetry. Learn more about our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/english\/graduateprogramsofstudyrequirements\/graduate-programs\/\">Master&#8217;s degree in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on:<\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=robbinsm\">Michael Robbins<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/english\/\">English at Montclair State<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/english\/programs-study-requirements\/creative-writing-minor\/\">Creative Writing Program<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/english\/graduateprogramsofstudyrequirements\/graduate-programs\/\">MA in English<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Robbins, assistant professor in the Department of English, is the author of a new book published by Simon &amp; Schuster: Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music. The book of criticism examines how works of art such as poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":118241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-57_english-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}