The action of this book-length poem unfurls in the public and private worlds of corporate man. The Manager is a poet's response to challenges thrown down by T.S. Eliot more than eighty years ago in The Waste Land. Its ground is identity, sexuality and vision. Its occupation is mind, heart and spirit. This revised edition of The Manager is the second volume in the ongoing series of Richard Berengarten's Selected Writings. Richard Berengarten used to be known as Richard Burns. With the inital publication of this series of books, he repossessed the family name of his father, the cellist and saxophonist Alexander Berengarten.