Straight Razor Paperback by Randall Mann

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2013-10-22)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892554300
• Item Weight: 108.86 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 14.22 x 0.76 cm

Bawdy yet elegant poems depicting the debaucheries and traumas of growing up amid San Francisco's gay scene.

Randall Mann combines the regal and ribald, his ear for poetic form matched by his unrelenting eye for lasciviousness, in this fetching chronicle of oversexed youth. 

"Craft and bravura mix well...Mann shows himself [Thom Gunn's] apt pupil...The clarity startles." -Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Randall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004), which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017) a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of a book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry (2019), as well as co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). He lives in San Francisco.