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Randall Mann

Randall Mann is the author of two collections of poetry, BREAKFAST WITH THOM GUNN (University of Chicago Press 2009) and COMPLAINT IN THE GARDEN (Zoo/Orchises 2004), winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize; and the co-author of the textbook WRITING POEMS, Seventh Edition (Pearson Longman 2007). He lives in San Francisco.
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    Randall Mann

    The Lightness of Sidney Wade

    Her lightness is not merely pointing out the details of the world but showing us that without the glory of the everyday, the parsnip, for instance, there can be no weight lifted.

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    Randall Mann: A Poem I Love

    The last poem I loved is John Casteen’s fifteen-line poem “Regret,” from his first collection, Free Union.  Here’s the first stanza: This life, it is like conducting the symphony of a warring country; the cellist has been shot through the…