Bøger af Randall Mann

"A collection of poetry by Randall Mann"--

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.

For years, RandallMann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry's most daringformalists, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchantwit and aplomb. His new collection, Proprietary,depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporateAmerica, in which he's worked for years, intertwined with some of histried-and-true subjects, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds ofSan Francisco and northern Florida.

Features poems that are haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century.