Poetry Magazine
Straight Razor
Source: Poetry (April 2010).
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 . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Relationships, Love
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Rhymed Stanza
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