A Better Life
Randall Mann

Randall Mann has long been admired for merging raw subject matter with formal ease in poems “at once boisterous and lubed, anxious and ambivalent” (Kenyon Review). In A Better Life, a gay, multiracial speaker toggles between the “florescent rot” of childhood and the “action; / transaction” of a sex-app midlife.

“Mann chronicles and contributes to a queer history that continues to be all too easily forgotten.”
—Chen Chen

“A Better Life is a beautiful book of history taken down to the scale of one.”
—Jericho Brown

Randall Mann is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently Proprietary, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Northern California Book Award, and a book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry. He lives in San Francisco.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.50) / ISBN 978-0-89255-531-4 / 104 pages / Poetry