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Deal: New and Selected ­Poems

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Paperback, 144 pages
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United States, 9 May 2023


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 



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 


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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 



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 

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1556596766
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Table of Contents

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 

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 

About the Author

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.

Reviews

Praise for Deal: New and Selected Poems “Mann's poetic output for the past two decades has proven consistently provocative and rewarding, and this collection provides an excellent overview of the work of an exceedingly fine poet.”—Diego Báez,Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
“It’s an event: Randall Mann’s work is now gathered in Deal: New and Selected, a volume of poems as rich as they are chiseled. . . . His poems have a pulsing beauty, sometimes driving, sometimes graceful with the poised supple rigidity of a ballet dancer.”—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's “Few American poets have written so faultlessly in pantoums, villanelles, sestinas, or page-spanning palindromes; even fewer were thirtysomethings debuting in the early 2000s. Emboldened by his guiding influence, Thom Gunn, the young Mann applied traditional forms to novel (but fittingly formalized) subjects: the patterns and poses of gay sociality, ‘hanky code’ and hookup culture, haute couture and exquisite smut. Deal: New and Selected Poems chronicles how Mann progressed from this early work to his most distinctive poems—a paradoxical process, equal parts unbuttoning and self-restraint. Book by book, Mann loosens up, fostering a comfortable distance through persona and caricature, exchanging the autobiography of Randall Mann for ironic portraiture of one randy man.”—Christopher Spaide, Harriet Books at the Poetry Foundation “Deal works equally well as a retrospective or an introduction to Mann’s work, where in the table of contents alone, poem titles accrue and cohere across time, as full of repetition and turns as a Randall Mann poem. . . . Mann is a poet of both place and displacement, but perhaps more accurately, he is a poet of landscape—of physical landscapes, but also cultural ones: queer life, the world of poetry, and language itself.”—Morgan English, On the Seawall “While Deal continues Mann’s explorations of love, desire, identity, and the complexities of queer experience—hallmarks of his poetic repertoire, it is his meticulous attention to detail and command of poetic form that truly distinguishes his work in this collection. Mann’s verses resonate with emotional depth and intellectual acuity, carrying a weight that leaves a lasting impact on the reader.”—Zyzzyva “As Mann has developed, his poems have grown increasingly svelte, to the degree that the reader of Deal—which fronts the new work—will encounter ballads whittled down to dimeter, threads of lyric a single syllable wide. It’s a narrow world, but Mann pushes it, virtuosically, in any number of directions. . . . Reading through the achievement of Deal, one can’t help but be struck by the many poems addressed to queer poets, from D.A. Powell to David Trinidad, and by the queer icons celebrated and mourned: Rock Hudson, Leo and Lance. The book, a crosscut of one poet’s history, offers itself as also a web of horizontal affiliation and care, in which influence—erotic, poetic—moves slantwise and unpredictably. It’s a sexy club, and we’re invited.”—Noah Warren, Adroit “Mann has been quietly, movingly adding poem after memorable poem to the queer canon for three decades; anyone who cares about poetry should read Deal.”—The Cortland Review “I am fascinated by where Mann’s poetry is going by combining three features: the very short line, freer or less systematic use of rhymes, and increasingly enigmatic meanings. The short lines foreground the rhyme when in close proximity—get punchy—but also, when separated by a run of unrhymed lines, echo one another more faintly while still stitching the meanings together. It takes confidence to write like this, because, if not done well, it can lose sense, become a too-enigmatic series of blips, as sometimes occurs here. For a poet such as Mann, who likes to combine the confessional with the allusive, the colloquial with the highly literary, the brutally self-honest with the humorous, it can work. This is part of what is seductive about Mann’s poetry.”—Jeff Franklin,Birmingham Poetry Review “Mann has adapted a phantasmagorical, Baudelairean ethos to suit a twenty-first-century, queer, US-American context.”—Brian Brodeur,Literary Matters “Mann’s astonishing lyric gifts, his formal and musical rigor and play, and his honest, vibrant voice.”—Colin Cheny and Cate Marvin, Holy Gossip
Praise for Randall Mann “A Better Life is a beautiful book of history taken down to the scale of one.”―Jericho Brown “Mann uses his own history to interrogate the experience of American life beyond the cis, white, heteronormative bubble, and he imbues his questions with humor and rhythm.”―Foreword Reviews (5 stars) “Sexually witty and existentially hilarious, A Better Life is also deeply elegiac with a rigor―a commitment to the music of the line―that astonishes.”―Chen Chen “Heart-wrenching. And expert craftsmanship. This is how Mann’s poems both pierce and enlarge the heart of the reader.”―APR “Mann thrives on the demands of constraint, the challenge of needing to go deep into a subject to find the rhyme, to maintain the integrity of the line, to render an experience with clarity, control, and concision.”―London Magazine “[Mann] represents perhaps the best in gay male poetry today, with a message of protest against corporate American life that is as relevant as it is timely. Mann’s work should be admired for its ferocity, its craft, and its unabashedly gay point of view.”―Lambda Literary “Mann is as fearless a poet as I’ve ever seen.”―Foglifter “Readers would do well to recognize Mann’s place alongside poets like D.A. Powell, Marilyn Hacker, and Anne Sexton.”―Booklist “Not least among the distinctions of Mann’s poems is that they aspire to one of the oldest ambitions of art: to fix the transient moments of our daily lives—in all their banality and beauty, their reverence and ridicule—in enduring forms. Mann is among our finest, most skillful poets of love and ruin.”―Garth Greenwell, Towleroad “The clarity startles.”―LA Times “These poems are not for the faint of heart.”―Lambda Literary “As Mann demonstrates in these complex, ringing lyrics, love gets even more complicated when whom you love has political implications.”―Cleveland Plain Dealer “Mann’s Complaint in the Garden quickly asserted itself for its rich idiom, its technical command, its poignant, often overlapping narratives, and its coherence not just as a miscellany but as a real book of poems.”—Kenyon Review “Randall Mann uses strict forms to render the casual, even the casually tragic. In that way he’s like the Elizabeth Bishop of ‘One Art.’”―Edmund White

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