Equipment for Living

Barry Brummett is a resident of Austin TX and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. This is his first book of poetry. His poems are grouped into general themes of nature life and death. The title is taken from a book chapter by the poet novelist and theorist Kenneth Burke. Literature including poems are equipment for living we turn to literature of all sorts to get us through life. Elsewhere Burke says that poems help get things placed. That is my goal in writing poetry.