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Randall Mann (born January 21, 1972) is an American poet.

Life & Career

Born in Provo, Utah, the only son of Olympic Track and Field medalist Ralph Mann, Mann grew up in Kentucky and Florida, and earned a BA and an MFA from the University of Florida.[1] Since 1998, he has lived in San Francisco.

Publications & Critical Reception

Mann's poems have appeared in numerous periodicals—including The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Washington Post—and he has published four full-length poetry collections. His first collection, Complaint in the Garden, published by Zoo Press in 2004, won the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry.[2] Mann's next collection, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009, was praised by the Los Angeles Times: "craft and bravura mix well" and "the clarity startles."[3] The book was named a finalist for the California Book Award[4] and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.[5] Mann's next two collections were published by Persea Books. Straight Razor, published in 2013, was described by the Los Angeles Times as full of "breathtaking honesty,"[6] and was named a best poetry book of the year by the Kansas City Star[7] and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.[8] Proprietary, published in 2017, was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award[9] and the Northern California Book Award.[10] In a review of Proprietary, Tess Taylor on NPR's All Things Considered said that "Mann imagines anew what it means to connect or to feel at a loss in the age of the Internet"[11]; Nathan Blansett in The Kenyon Review wrote that "Proprietary shows Mann at his most incisive"[12]; and Walter Holland, writing in Lambda Literary, wrote "Mann's work should be admired for its ferocity, its craft, and its unabashedly gay point of view."[13]

Mann is also the co-author of the textbook Writing Poems, Seventh Edition, published by Pearson Longman in 2007.

Honors & Awards

In 2004, Mann was named to the OUT 100 list by OUT Magazine.[14] He was named a Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library in 2010.[15] In 2013, he received the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine.[16]

Published Works

Poetry Collections

Proprietary. Persea Books, 2017. ISBN 978-0892554812.

Straight Razor. Persea Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0892554300.

Breakfast with Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0226503448.

Complaint in the Garden. Zoo Press, 2004. ISBN 978-1932023121.

Co-Authored Book

Writing Poems, Seventh Edition. With Michelle Boisseau & Robert Wallace. Pearson Longman, 2007. ISBN 978-0321474063.

References

  1. ^ University of Florida info
  2. ^ The Kenyon Review. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4338585?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  3. ^ The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-caw-new-paperbacks29-2009mar29-story.html# (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  4. ^ SF Gate. https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/California-Book-Award-finalists-3194928.php (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  5. ^ Lambda Literary. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/05/10/2010-awards-finalists-winners/ (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  6. ^ The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-randall-mann-and-the-poetics-of-desire-20140109-story.html# (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  7. ^ The Kansas City Star. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article332835/100-ways-to-celebrate-the-written-word.html (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  8. ^ Lambda Literary. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  9. ^ Lambda Literary. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/lambda-literary-award-finalists/ (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  10. ^ Poetry Flash. http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2018 (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  11. ^ NPR. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/535665871/randall-manns-proprietary-reinvents-classic-san-francisco-poetry (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  12. ^ The Kenyon Review. https://www.kenyonreview.org/reviews/proprietary-by-randall-mann-738439/ (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  13. ^ Lambda Literary. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/08/08/proprietary-randall-mann/ (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  14. ^ OUT Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=%22OUT+100%22+2004&source=bl&ots=jKDfnOc_Bd&sig=qn8lSruJxJyisH_jDlRoPgNBFcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1q_iO-abcAhUljlQKHfklAeUQ6AEIUjAK#v=onepage&q=%22OUT%20100%22%202004&f=false (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  15. ^ San Francisco Public Library. http://www.friendssfpl.dreamhosters.com/events/laureates (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  16. ^ J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/prizes#wood (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018)
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