A Better Life
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A Better Life
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From “a writer of breathtaking honesty” (David Ulin, LA Times), gorgeous new poems that are satirical, open-hearted, and unrepentantly queer.
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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Praised by Jericho Brown as "a beautiful book of history taken down to the scale of one," and described by Chen Chen as "sexually witty and existentially hilarious," A Better Life is celebrated for its elegiac depth and musicality. Publishers Weekly highlights its inventive rhyme and structure, tackling themes of obsession and pain. Foreword Reviews commends Mann's interrogation of American life beyond mainstream norms, marked by humour and rhythm. The book has also been recognised by Lambda Literary as one of the most anticipated LGBTQ titles.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780892555314
Publisher: Persea Books Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 April 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Persea Books Inc
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 130g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
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.
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