{"product_id":"a-better-life-randall-mann-9780892555314","title":"A Better Life: Poems","description":"In his poetry, \"at once boisterous and lubed, anxious and ambivalent\" (\u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e), Randall Mann has always had his finger on the pulse of modern life. In his liminal new book of poetry, a gay, multiracial (\"they called me yellow in Lexington\") speaker exists in the rift between the \"fluorescent rot\" of childhood and the \"action; \/ transaction\" of a sex-app midlife. The author of \u003cem\u003eStraight Razor\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eProprietary\u003c\/em\u003e, Mann has long been admired for merging raw subject matter with formal ease. \u003cem\u003eA Better Life \u003c\/em\u003eshows him at the height of his gifts, in the clipped, haunting truth of its rhymes and rhythms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randall Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0892555319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892555314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Persea Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/19\/2021","brand":"Randall Mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043862147327,"sku":"9780892555314","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fb59ab1-c11f-4a89-8cee-3b1e5d04ee8b.jpg?v=1684969553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-better-life-randall-mann-9780892555314","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}