The first comprehensive book of Lorenzo Thomas's work. Chances Are Few included prose works, poetry, and Thomas's English versions of work by Roberto McKay, Dukardo Hinestrosa, and Leon Damas. Gwendolyn Brooks says of this book: "This is a striking collection, notable for wit, technical skill, and steady energy." Stephen Stepanchev, author of American Poetry Since 1945 says: "Fresh, individual, and alive. It coheres in its theme, in its concern with the counterpoint between desperate American lives and the fantasy world of TV and the movies. It is an excellent book."
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My writing deals with the masked media as an accepted 'natural' element of life. Its purpose is a critical analysis of that world view which makes TV Guide the most widely circulated periodical in the modern world as we know it. In that sense the poems are at once personal & political.
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Thomas was born in the Republic of Panama in 1944. His family moved to New York City when he was four. He served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam from 1968-1972. He is currently a professor at the University of Houston.
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Instructions for Your New Osiris From Chances Are Few,
By Van G. Garrett (Houston,Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chances Are Few (Paperback)
Thomas' poem reflects a conversational and honest tone which is notably his hallmark. "Instructions for Your New Osiris" is a great example of skillful writing about a very personal experience. This denouncement of a once loving muse also conjures the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris; a tale where the protagonist's physical vessel is captured, transformed, erected, and shattered because of his brother Typhon's jealousy. A clever conceit future suitors of the poem's 'Isis' may want to carefully consider. Van G. Garrett's poems have appeared in Rolling Out, Life Imitating Art, Swirl, Drumvoices Review, Curbside Review, Shanks' Mare, Urban Beat, E! Scene and elsewhere.
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