Randall Mann Quotes

• 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, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

  Randall Mann

  Rhyme, Turns, Wanted

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• I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

  Randall Mann

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• 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

  Men, Noise, Uniforms

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• 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 most intimate encounters.

  Randall Mann

  Art, Sick, Everyday

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• 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 vernacular of work into poems. I'm also writing some poems about family. And I don't know, just writing. Taking breaks. Writing some more.

  Randall Mann

  Fun, Writing, Sound

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• I am probably going to pay for this at some point, but I think pretty much everyone I come into contact with is fair game. So I use real names sometimes if the poem says it happened like that. It feels right if I use the real person I reference. Of course the poem is all lies, even when it's true, so I guess I can sleep at night.

  Randall Mann

  Real, Lying, Sleep

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• Creo que me siento cómodo haciéndome a mí mismo, o a mi orador, más grande que la vida si luego puedo cortarme por los tobillos. En "Mi gran premio", el orador hace una actuación de tristeza y poesía para un comité de premios anónimo, pero nos hace saber que todo es un juego irónico.

  Randall Mann

  Sadness, Cutting, Thinking

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