Michael Robbins

please direct all publicity requests to Chris Smith (chsmith @ penguinrandomhouse dot com)• BOOKSAlien vs. Predator (Penguin Books, 2012)  • New York Times Book Review     Editors’ Choice  • Winner of The Believer’s Reader     Survey, Best Work of Poetry  • Selected as a Best Book of the Year: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Slate * The New York Observer * Commonweal * Books & Culture * Vol. 1 Brooklyn * Complex * The Millions * The AustralianThe Second Sex (Penguin Books, 2014)  • Selected as a Best Book of the Year: Slate * Flavorwire * First Things * Coldfront * Books & Culture * The National Post * Lit Genius * Vol. 1 BrooklynEquipment for Living: Poetry & Popular Music (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming)• “What puts his poems over is their sheer joy and dizzy command…. Reading Mr. Robbins’s best stuff makes you feel something new is being flogged into existence…. He has a sky-blue originality of utterance.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times•twitter/instagram: @alienvsrobbins•[Recent poems]The New YorkerPoetry magazinePreludeLos Angeles Review of BooksHazlittCommonwealThe WalrusBoston ReviewThe Awlnonsite[Reviews of Alien vs. Predator]The New York Times Book ReviewThe New York TimesThe Washington PostFinancial TimesThe Boston GlobeEntertainment WeeklyPublishers WeeklyThe New York ObserverNational PostThe Weekly StandardLibrary JournalThe Kansas City StarThe Boston Phoenix[Recent interviews & profiles]Boston ReviewVol. 1 BrooklynThe BelieverChicago TribuneLos Angeles Review of BooksThe New York ObserverThe Paris ReviewVol. 1 BrooklynThe Best American PoetryBomblog[Recent reviews & essays](haven’t updated this in forever)Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives [Harper’s]Equipment for Living [Poetry]on James Dickey [Poetry]on black metal [Slate]on David Bentley Hart [Commonweal]on evangelicalism [Slate]on Eric Church [SPIN]on Kenneth Koch [The New York Observer]Ripostes [Poetry]on The Arabian Nights [Books & Culture]A Poem for President Drone [The Los Angeles Review of Books]on Pistol Annies [SPIN]on Susan Wheeler [Books & Culture]on Anne Carson [The New York Observer]on My Bloody Valentine [SPIN]on Swinburne [Poetry]on Dylan Thomas [Poetry]on Louise Glück [The Los Angeles Review of Books]on Taylor Swift [SPIN]on genre fiction [Chicago Tribune]on Neil Young [The New York Observer]on pop music and poetry [Chicago Tribune]on Frederick Seidel [Chicago Tribune]on Maureen N. McLane [The New York Observer]on Marilynne Robinson [The New York Observer]on Perdita [Poetry]on Geoffrey Hill, Ish Klein, & Fanny Howe [Poetry]on Fucked Up [The Daily]on Wild Flag [The Daily]on David Orr [The New York Observer]various reviews in Poetry magazineon John Ashbery [London Review of Books]on Nick Lowe [Village Voice]on Bruce Springsteen [Village Voice]on the Gaslight Anthem [Village Voice]“Embrace Michael Robbins as a damned funny poet, but appreciate that he’s a damned good craftsman too. Melded to the punch line is the prosody—a trochee here, a Dickinsonian stanza there, a brush stroke that conjures Mayakovsky, a pie in the face to Basho. The easiest way to say it is this: prepare to be impressed."—Lisa Jarnot "These poems are bad for you, the way alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, bacon, carbohydrates, television and the internet are bad for you. Better pick up extra copies for your villa, your chalet, your hutment, your yurt, and your sidewalk grate."—Jordan Davis