A Better Life: Poems - Mann, Randall
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In his poetry, "at once boisterous and lubed, anxious and ambivalent" ( Kenyon Review), Randall Mann has always had his finger on the pulse of modern life. In his liminal new book of poetry, a gay, multiracial ("they called me yellow in Lexington") speaker exists in the rift between the "fluorescent rot" of childhood and the "action; / transaction" of a sex-app midlife. The author of Straight Razor and Proprietary,  Mann has long been admired for merging raw subject matter with formal ease. A Better Life  shows him at the height of his gifts, in the clipped, haunting truth of its rhymes and rhythms.…mehr

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In his poetry, "at once boisterous and lubed, anxious and ambivalent" ( Kenyon Review), Randall Mann has always had his finger on the pulse of modern life. In his liminal new book of poetry, a gay, multiracial ("they called me yellow in Lexington") speaker exists in the rift between the "fluorescent rot" of childhood and the "action; / transaction" of a sex-app midlife. The author of Straight Razor and Proprietary,  Mann has long been admired for merging raw subject matter with formal ease. A Better Life  shows him at the height of his gifts, in the clipped, haunting truth of its rhymes and rhythms.
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Randall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004), which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017) a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of a book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry (2019), as well as co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). He lives in San Francisco.