Randall Mann

Deal (eBook, ePUB)

New and Selected Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Political and sequined, Deal: New and Selected Poems contains the most memorable of Mann's previous five collections and presents new poems of disco, lament, and formal invention.

One of our leading American practitioners of poetic form and liberating constraint, Randall Mann has for the past thirty years confronted what it means to identify as multiracial and queer in urban America. Deal: New and Selected Poems harnesses five previous volumes and includes economical yet expansive new works rooted in an age of Wi-Fi, apps, and chat notifications. His newest poems, written in concise, contemporary lines, move us word by word, until we arrive at a stark reality.

Unafraid of the nexus between politics, syntax, and the contradictions of the colloquial, Mann's poetry refuses token liberation and reminds us that life's a cold exercise in looking backback to disco and fetish, to a shared gay history, to his childhood Florida or his beloved San Francisco. Whether writing a sestina in the voice of the mortician of Harvey Milk's murderer, or a deeply moving pantoum elegizing bullied gay adolescents who committed suicide, formal invention for Mann remains intensely personal. This collectionerotic, mournful, and often satiricalcharacteristically subverts, even as it enlarges, a language that continues to fail us.

Timestamped by surprise and exhaustion, and filled with the everyday indignities of being alive, Deal: New and Selected Poems affirms Randall Mann, in the words of Garth Greenwell, as among our finest, most skillful poets of love and ruin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619322769
• Artikelnr.: 67762949

Autorenporträt

Randall Mann is the author of five books of poetry including Complaint of the Garden, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, Straight Razor, Proprietary, and, most recently, A Better Life. Recipient of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize awarded by POETRY magazine, Mann is also author of The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, a book of literary criticism. Mann's poetry has appeared in the Adroit Journal, Asian American Literary Review, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Paris Review, Poem-A-Day, POETRY, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. Three-time finalists for the Lambda Literary Award, Mann's poetry collections have been shortlisted for the California Book Award and Northern California Book Award, and long-listed for the Golden Poppy Awards' Martin Cruz Diversity and Inclusion Award. Mann lives in San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

New Poems 
A Walk in the Park 
In the Beginning 
Deal 
Blue 
The Summer of 1996 
A Step Past Disco 
In the Rapid Autumn of Libraries  
Days 
Wi-Fi 
The Past 
Double Life 
Luck 
September 
Containment 
One Night Stand 
The Scene 
Tagged 
Friday 
Poem Beginning with a Line by Wayne Koestenbaum Against Metaphor 
The Turn of the Year 
from Complaint in the Garden (2004) 
? 
Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery 
Song 
Eros 
Complaint of the Regular 
Complaint of the Lecturer 
The Heron 
The Revival of Vernacular Architecture 
The Shortened History of Florida 
The Landscape of Deception 
Pantoum 
Evidence 
Fiduciary 
The End of the Last Summer 
from Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009) 
Early Morning on Market Street 
Politics 
Queen Christina 
The Mortician in San Francisco 
Bernal Hill 
Ruin 
Last Call 
The End of Landscape 
Syntax 
Breakfast with Thom Gunn 
Ovid in San Francisco 
The Long View 
N 
Ocean Beach 
Translation 
Lexington 
from Straight Razor (2013) 
The Fall of 1992 
Straight Razor 
Cockroach 
My Guidance Counselor 
Stable 
End Words 
September Elegies 
Song 
Larkin Street 
Only You 
Teaser 
Hyperbole 
But Enough About Me 
The Lion’s Mouth 
Untoward Occurrence at Embassy Suites Poetry Reading American Apparel 
from Proprietary (2017) 
Proprietary 
Nothing 
Black Box 
Order 
Florida 
Proximity 
Realtor 
Halston 
Leo & Lance 
Perspective 
Complaint 
Dolores Park 
Alphabet Street 
Translation 
Young Republican 
Almost 
from A Better Life (2021) 
A Better Life 
Florida Again 
True Blue 
Rhapsody 
RSVP 
Stalking Points 
Everybody Everybody 
The Lone Palm 
Weather 
Anecdote of an Ex- 
The Summer Before the Student Murders 
Long Beach 
Beginning and Ending with a Line by Michelle Boisseau Playboy 
A New Syntax