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Source: Poetry (January 2005).
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Biography
Randall Mann’s poems are often set within the landscape of Florida or California. Influenced by Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, and Donald Justice, Mann’s poetry—at once vulnerable, unflinching, and brave in its ambivalence—explores themes of loss, attraction, brutality, and expectation. Of his preference for working in form, Mann says, “Form helps me approach more comfortably the personal, helps me harden argument.”
Mann is . . .
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SUBJECT Relationships, Cities & Urban Life, Social Commentaries
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Ballad
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