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Winter 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 1 • Poetry |

Hyperbole

By Randall Mann

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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.

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