{"product_id":"deal-new-and-selected-poems-9781556596766","title":"Deal: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePolitical and sequined, \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e contains the most memorable of Mann's previous five collections and presents new poems of disco, lament, and formal invention.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of our leading American practitioners of poetic form and liberating constraint, Randall Mann has for the past thirty years confronted what it means to identify as multiracial and queer in urban America. \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e harnesses five previous volumes and includes economical yet expansive new works rooted in an age of Wi-Fi, apps, and chat notifications. His newest poems, written in concise, contemporary lines, move us word by word, until we arrive at a stark reality.Unafraid of the nexus between politics, syntax, and the contradictions of the colloquial, Mann's poetry refuses \"token liberation\" and reminds us that \"life's a cold exercise in looking back\"--back to disco and fetish, to a shared gay history, to his childhood Florida or his beloved San Francisco. Whether writing a sestina in the voice of the mortician of Harvey Milk's murderer, or a deeply moving pantoum elegizing bullied gay adolescents who committed suicide, formal invention for Mann remains intensely personal. This collection--erotic, mournful, and often satirical--characteristically subverts, even as it enlarges, a language that continues to fail us.\u003cbr\u003eTimestamped by surprise and exhaustion, and filled with the everyday indignities of being alive, \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003eaffirms Randall Mann, in the words of Garth Greenwell, as \"among our finest, most skillful poets of love and ruin.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRandall Mann is the author of five books of poetry including \u003ci\u003eComplaint of the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBreakfast with Thom Gunn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStraight Razor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProprietary\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eA Better Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Recipient of the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review \u003c\/i\u003ePrize in Poetry and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize awarded by \u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Mann is also author of \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of literary criticism. Mann's poetry has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAdroit Journal, Asian American Literary Review, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Paris Review, Poem-A-Day, POETRY, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562304999698,"sku":"9781556596766","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b12a6910-f337-4bde-918c-6bce3930905d.jpg?v=1731858807","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deal-new-and-selected-poems-9781556596766","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}