Letter from Poetry Magazine
Letter to the Editor
BY Randall Mann
Dear Editor,
I laughed and laughed at Don Paterson’s “Aphorisms” [October 2005]; I find one of them so witty and sensible, regarding the prepositional and the Greeks, that I am using it as the course description for my graduate poetry-writing class. Thank you for bringing such stylish prose to Poetry.
Poet Randall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004), which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Proprietary (2017) a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and Lambda Literary Award; A Better Life…