The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas (eBook)
498 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7900-3 (ISBN)
amp;lt;P>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. ALDON LYNN NIELSEN is the author of Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. He is the George and Barbara Kelly professor of American literature at Penn State University. LAURA VRANA is assistant professor of English specializing in African American literature and poetry at the University of South Alabama.</P>
<P>Acknowledgments • Preface, Laura Vrana • Introduction, Aldon Lynn Nielsen • Poems 1963-2005 • EARLY CRIMES 1963-1966 • "The way Egyptians used to sit" • The Unnatural Life • One Never Knows, Do One • Negritude • Domestic Horror<BR>Toil • Embarkation for Cythera • The Blond Sinner • Economics • How Can I Prove I Am Not Modigliani • Great Love Duets • Engagement • The Convention • Song • DRACULA • Dracula • THE BATHERS • Onion Bucket • Twelve Gates • Other Worlds • I Just Want To Reach Out And Bite You Baby • The Bathers • The Lion Is The Lamb • Anubis • FIT MUSIC • Fit Music: California Songs, 1970 • SLUM DAYS AFTER THE WAR • Wonders • Enlightenment • Survivors • Heavenly Bodies • Faith • The Heroin Of My Youth • Grandpa's Spells • Historiography • [Liner Notes] • Bother Me • Sea of Chance (A Sailor Song) • Sugar Hill • Fly Society • To Speak of Woe That Is In Marrakesh • Better Physics • While Madness Reigns • Serpent Guerillas • Work Song • Framing The Sunrise • Fātiha • EUPHEMYSTICISM • A Song For The Banana Tree Sleeping In My Yard • Cosmic Communion • Blues Cadet • Paul Laurence Dunbar Views The Sword Of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Chicago Exposition 1893 • Euphemysticism • Suicide Administration • Ancient Habits Or Customs • Mouthology • Hurricane Doris • Evry Mae • Sprucing Spring Up On Larkin Street • Another Poem In English • JAMBALAYA • Rhumba Negro • False Alarm • R & B • The Architecture of Devotion • Saint • Witches • High Hell Jesus • Collective Poems • Spiritual • House of Red Lights • Sounds of Joy • They'll Be Back • Le Zodico Ne Pas Seul • Jubilee • SOUND SCIENCE • A Native Guide • Pyramids • The New Borning • More Than Nothing • The Persuader • A Judge • Duds • My Calling • The Offering • Speak Low • Low Speech • Electricity On Earth • Arc In The Dark • Magnetism • The Universe • There's A Lot Of Wisdom Here • One More Chance • What I Would Prefer • We Are Beautiful African People • Protection • Look What You Done For Me • Possession • Obedience • Oil of Gladness • CHANCES ARE FEW • My Office • Inauguration • The Fine Clothes Of Year Before Last • Farting As Decency • Sugar Hill • Security • Personal Anthropology • Broadway-Lafayette • Espadrille • Euchre Bridge • Wheeling • Too Loud For Names • The Rule Of Thumb • The Leopard • They Never Lose • Too Much One Thing, Not Enough Somewhat Else • Choosing Metals • Guilt • Canzone • Sketches of Susan • Electricity Of Blossoms • Hiccups after Leon Damas • Instructions For Your New Osiris • Shake Hands With Your Bets, Friend • The Marvelous Land Of Indefinitions • When Dukardo Boarded The Astro-Jet, He Already Done Seen The Movie • Home XXI • MMDCCXIII 2 • An Excerpt From Big House Movies • Screen Test • Class Action • Hat Red • Clear Channel • Salt • Discovering America Again • Happy New Year • Summer Stock • Art For Nothing • Things Could Be Worse • The Gods' Own Privilege • Souvenir Of The Manassah Ball • Liquid City • DANCING ON MAIN STREET • Mister Anderson • The Kite And The Hawk • South St. Blues • Please, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood • When If The Big Bands Come Back • Guerilla Girls • Displacement • Sentiment • Suburban Saturdays • Mourning 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 • Back-Ordered Tears • ADDITIONAL POEMS • The Black Canaries Weep Over Gomorrha • South Afrika • A Tale of Two Cities • Grass • West • Political Science • Enuresis • Gilbert and Sullivan • The Conscience of Cole Porter • The Pornography • Linear Variation • Nichomachean Ethics • Chorus from an Unwritten Greek Play • The Color Section • The Judgment of Paris • The Fall of Paris • Robert Williams, Exiled in Cuba • Sonnet • Life on the Farm • Project Blues • Secrets of the Samba • Modern Plumbing Illustrated • The Subway Witnesses • Two One-Act Plays • Selena • From The Working Days • The Midnight Sun • Good Housekeeping • Five Empty Reams • Millenarian Joys Walking Vicksburg Blues • A Mingus Memory • Hollandaise Salsa • Diplomacy • Go to Bed Anyway • Nowhere Near Albuquerque • An Education • Downtown Boom • Ailerons & Elevators • An Arc Still Open • STATEMENTS • Statement for Jambalaya, 1975 • Statement for None of the Above, 1976 • Introduction to Chances Are Few, second edition, 2003</P>
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.12.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Wesleyan Poetry Series | Wesleyan Poetry Series |
Zusatzinfo | 2 b&w photos |
Verlagsort | Middletown |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik |
Schlagworte | The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas, Lorenzo Thomas, Aldon Lynn Nielson, Laura Vrana, African American, Society of Umbra, New York School, Black Arts Movement, Blues, Jazz, Vietnam, Urban north, Southwest, Negritude, Lyric innovator, Contemporary literature, Critic, Wesleyan Poetry, Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation, poems, Umbra, poetry, Umbra, Society of Umbra, New York School, Houston, black poetics, jazz poetry, blues poetry, survival narratives, race, Lorenzo Thomas |
ISBN-10 | 0-8195-7900-9 / 0819579009 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8195-7900-3 / 9780819579003 |
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