Dancing on Main Street

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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, Thomass long-awaited collection spanning many decades of his career, blends traditional lyricism with a surrealists touch and a realists 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 Poets Foundation awards and the Lucille Medwick Prize.

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"If, like Lorenzo Thomas, you know that "church" can be a verb, then this is your book. If not, then let this book school you. As his previous work 'The Bathers' remains one of the very best poems to arise from the Civil Rights Movement, here 'Last Call' stands as one of the only poems about the veterans of the war in Vietnam that, like the veterans, survives that war, survives the wreckage of language wrought by that war, survives its country's call. "Dancing on Main Street begins 'anyplace you've ever been' and ends with 'back-ordered tears.' In between is America."--Aldon L. Nielsen

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Lorenzo Thomas is an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, and professor of English at the University of Houston. Born in Panama, Thomas became a founding member of the Umbra workshop and an important part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. His books of poetry include Chances are Few, The Bathers, and Sound Science. He is the recipient of two Poets Foundation awards and the Lucille Medwick Prize.