HeyJaredmichael röbbins's stash
Author of Walkman and other books of poetry (Penguin); Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music (Simon & Schuster). Work published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, London Review of Books, &c.
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Listening to Too Much Dinosaur Jr. (opens the original)
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J Mascis is trying to tell us something. (Selected lyrics from 1993 to 2026.)•I’d like to come and see youBut I think I’m on my way—“On the Way”I don’t see you, I won’t call youI don't know enough to stall you—“Get Me”When I call to see if you're aroundI have no choice—“Drawerings”In the place you said you’d meet meI don’t see you hanging around—“Goin’ Home”I walk over and we smile and all get set—“Hide”<p
On recent poetry for Book Post (opens the original)
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I wrote about some recent books of poetry for Book Post by Jorie Graham, Richard Siken, Allan Peterson, Lindsay Turner, & Juliana Spahr. Here are the first two entries, with a link to the rest. Hope you dig. There will be singing in the dark times. About the dark times.•Lindsay Turner’s Middle Slope is an elegy for the world. I don’t know how else to describe these strong, sad poems of various form and length. They sound like things falling apart, like R
New poem in Granta (opens the original)
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I have a new long poem, from my ms. Safe Word, in Granta, which I hope you’ll read (f/ sonic youth, charli xcx, minutemen, eagles, joni, delines, mazzy star, the cure, sugarhill gang, geto boys, motley crüe, iron maiden, slayer, reo speedwagon, adrianne lenker, def leppard, gram parsons, ani difranco, n.w.a., et al.).https://granta.com/people-keep-finding-bodies-in-joshua-tree/It’s unpaywalled. I’ll reprint it here, but it looks better on the journal’s site. Pull quote: The author claims t
The Trouble with GOATs (opens the original)
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I just bought Kind of Blue on vinyl for the first time. I’ve had various CDs of it since I was in high school, and a search in a closet reveals that I still have one in a CD wallet (remember those?) from the ’90s. But I hadn’t listened to the album since then either, so when I saw it in the bin at the record store, I thought, why not. This album is incredible. I already knew that—everyone already knows that. But it’s so overhyped—the greatest jazz record of all time!!—that it became hard for me
songs no one loves (but me) (hyperbole) (opens the original)
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At a Verso party some years ago, I commandeered the speakers, plugged my phone in, and cued up “Little Red Corvette.” Murmurs and coos of appreciation floated from the crowd. Some songs everyone seems to love. And many times a song that I’d always considered my personal property has come on in a café or in the car—Jackson Browne’s “Lawyers in Love” or the Outfield’s “Your Love”—and I’ll say, “Oh, I love this song,” and the person I’m with says, “Me too.” Then there are songs,
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