Complaint in the Garden
Description:... From poolside to seaside, barroom to classroom, sex club to colonial Florida, Randall Mann's curiosity endeavors to discover, often ironically, the beauty of things in the world around him. These meditations-harsh, honest, explicit (though never vulgar), dark, and astute-reflect a sentiment for the urbane and the primitive in nature, history, love, and humankind. Mann invites readers into lush landscapes, sundry histories, and a contemporary gay San Francisco populated by those things and people loved and lost. Randall Mann was born in Provo, Utah, and now lives in San Francisco, California. His poetry and book reviews have appeared in the New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Salmagundi, and Verse. He works as an administrative analyst at the University of California, San Francisco.
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