A Better Life: Poems

by Randall Mann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892555319
• ISBN13: 9780892555314
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 7.8"