Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement,… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise. — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way,… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I am probably going to pay for this at some point, but I think pretty much everyone I come into contact with is fair… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
