Dancing on Main Street

Name: Dancing on Main Street
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ISBN: 9781566891561

ISBN-10: 1566891566

ISBN-13: 9781566891561

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lorenzo Thomas

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A major figure in the Black Arts Movement and a founding member of the Umbra workshop, Lorenzo Thomas is one of the most heralded authors of his generation. Dancing on Main Street, Thomas's long-awaited collection spanning many decades of his career, blends traditional lyricism with a surrealist's touch and a realist's eye. Together, these poems form a cinematic look at the obsessions, -pleasures, trials, and tribulations of life on Main Street. Lorenzo Thomas, who was born in Panama and grew up in New York City, is a poet, critic and professor of English at the University of Houston. His books of poetry include Chances Are Few, The Bathers and Sound Science. He is the recipient of two…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 130
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



The kite and the hawk


South St. Blues


Please, don't let me be misunderstood


When if the big bands come back


Guerrilla girls


Displacement


Sentiment


Suburban Saturdays


Morning raga


The Audie Murphy game


Destruction of the seated man


Last call


Excitation


Skunk insulation


Grudge match


Lifelong learning


Otis


Spirits you all


Journey of 1,000 li


Tirade


Poem in lieu of the marriage of Andrew Zolem


The sadness of space exploration


Quiet riot


Dumb luck


The new south


Lights out


No, don't get up


The failure of alchemy


Working-class hero


The gambler


Knight to queen's pawn


An old hand


Pornography=exploitation of men


Now you can worry


L'argent


Thinking in words


Like a tree


Sightseeing in East Texas


Psalm


Back in the day


Whale song


Songs without shadows


The marks are waiting


Dirge for Amadou Diallo


An afternoon with Dr. Blumenbach


Dangerous doubts


Lustre


Cameo in sudden light


Country song


Multicultural


Low rider


An even-tempered girl holds her breath


She lived to be 100


A kind of accounting


Cute girl with a toy monkey


Flash point


God sends love disguised as ordinary people


Magnetic charms


Equinox


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