The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas
By Lorenzo Thomas and Aldon Lynn Nielsen
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Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005) was the youngest member of the Society of Umbra, predecessor of the Black Arts Movement. The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas is the first volume to encompass his entire writing life. His poetry synthesizes New York School and Black Arts aesthetics, heavily influenced by blues and jazz. In a career that spanned decades, Thomas constantly experimented with form and subject, while still writing poetry deeply rooted in the traditions of African American aesthetics. Whether drawing from his experiences during the war in Vietnam, exploring his life in the urban north and the southwest, or parodying his beloved Negritude ancestors, Thomas was a lyric innovator.
Lorenzo Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005), was a critic and poet, and published volumes of scholarship as well as numerous essays, including several histories of the Umbra group.
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The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas - Lorenzo Thomas
Early Crimes
I
The way Egyptians used to sit
she sits
listening to the radio
Glass room trembles,
the people panting to be
average people
nothing to do with her
Sit erect in an ordinary
chair
The way she sat, her hands
pressed together
Monarch
Sunlight come into the dark
garden of the radio’s
insatiability Chew up
our peaceful moments
Flowers,
before the news
The 2nd stage etc etc etc
The age we live in doesn’t matter
She is not at home
She is somewhere pressed into
stone
Thinking foreign thoughts
to our music
Some mixup, huh
II
She is a new cut out
Her white outline exposes the news
broadcasts
Her dissent is like that
of the music
She is an