Randall Mann is the author of Breakfast with Thom Gunn (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Complaint in the Garden (Orchises, 2004), winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize; and coauthor of the textbook Writing Poems (Pearson Longman, 2007). He lives in San Francisco.
Poetry
Summer 2006
Breakfast with Thom Gunn
in memory, 1929-2004 We choose a cheap hotelbecause they’re serving drinks.We drink. I hear him tella tale or two: He thinks that so-and-so’s a sleaze;and then there was the timethat […]
New Voices
Spring 2004
From “Complaint in the Garden”
Winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry RAIN This is the rain, the rain in north Florida: rain on the fanned fronds of the saw palmetto; […]
Poetry
Winter 2012
Hyperbole
I start with good intentions. On a date, I struggle not to sound so insincere; I think, hyperbole will be my fate. Last night I found a fairly decent mate. […]
Poetry
Winter 2012
Stable
Bloody, slick, and fierce, I slid out of the womb. My heart was underfed. My mouth began to foam. At six I bit my lip and took to backyard voguing: […]