{"product_id":"deal-new-and-selected-poems-9781556596766","title":"Deal: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePolitical and sequined, \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e contains the most memorable of Mann's previous five collections and presents new poems of disco, lament, and formal invention.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of our leading American practitioners of poetic form and liberating constraint, Randall Mann has for the past thirty years confronted what it means to identify as multiracial and queer in urban America. \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e harnesses five previous volumes and includes economical yet expansive new works rooted in an age of Wi-Fi, apps, and chat notifications. His newest poems, written in concise, contemporary lines, move us word by word, until we arrive at a stark reality.Unafraid of the nexus between politics, syntax, and the contradictions of the colloquial, Mann's poetry refuses \"token liberation\" and reminds us that \"life's a cold exercise in looking back\"-back to disco and fetish, to a shared gay history, to his childhood Florida or his beloved San Francisco. Whether writing a sestina in the voice of the mortician of Harvey Milk's murderer, or a deeply moving pantoum elegizing bullied gay adolescents who committed suicide, formal invention for Mann remains intensely personal. This collection--erotic, mournful, and often satirical--characteristically subverts, even as it enlarges, a language that continues to fail us.\u003cbr\u003eTimestamped by surprise and exhaustion, and filled with the everyday indignities of being alive, \u003ci\u003eDeal: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003eaffirms Randall Mann, in the words of Garth Greenwell, as \"among our finest, most skillful poets of love and ruin.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randall Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556596766","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439217905801,"sku":"9781556596766","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b4bd85cf-763c-42d4-bb55-c376db363a97.jpg?v=1716270161","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/deal-new-and-selected-poems-9781556596766","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}