Randall Mann

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

Life and career[edit]

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 and critical reception[edit]

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 six 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 and awards[edit]

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[edit]

Poetry collections[edit]

Deal: New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1556596766.

A Better Life. Persea Books, 2021. ISBN 978-0892555314.

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ University of Florida info
  2. ^ Baker, David (2004). "On Randall Mann's "Complaint in the Garden"". The Kenyon Review. 26 (2): 93–96. ISSN 0163-075X. JSTOR 4338585.
  3. ^ Rayner, Richard (2009-03-29). "New in paperback: Wit, elegance and war". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  4. ^ "California Book Award finalists". SFGATE. 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  5. ^ Valenzuela, Tony (2010-05-10). "22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  6. ^ "Randall Mann and the poetics of desire". Los Angeles Times. 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  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. ^ Boureau, Ella (2018-03-06). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  10. ^ "Poetry Flash > programs". poetryflash.org. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  11. ^ NPR. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/535665871/randall-manns-proprietary-reinvents-classic-san-francisco-poetry (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  12. ^ "On Proprietary by Randall Mann". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  13. ^ Holland, Walter (2017-08-08). "'Proprietary' by Randall Mann". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  14. ^ Out. Here Publishing. December 2004.
  15. ^ San Francisco Public Library. http://www.friendssfpl.dreamhosters.com/events/laureates (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018).
  16. ^ "Poetry Magazine Prizes". Poetry Foundation. 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-19.

External links[edit]

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