Walkman

A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his "sky-blue originality of utterance" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)

While Michael Robbins's first two books of poems, Alien vs. Predator and The Second Sex, remixed pop culture and classic poetry to brash effect, mowing down late capitalism with machine-gun rhythms and rhymes, his third collection turns inward. Working mostly in longform free-verse borrowed from the New York School, Robbins mines our political and ecological moment with his trademark humor and verve, in a more autobiographical and less slapstick vein, in ghostlier demarcations, and keener sounds. Michael Robbins was born in Kansas during the Nixon administration. Sometime later, he received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. In addition to his two poetry collections, Alien vs. Predator and The Second Sex, he is also the author of the essay collection Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music. His poetry and criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, The Paris Review, and many other publications. An Assistant Professor of English at Montclair State University, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, with the best cat in the world.