In the poetry of LorenzoThomas, there is often an implicit soundtrack behind the words, an allusive, unheard but remembered music that helps to establish the mood, location, or social context of a given moment of the poet's observant participation.
Fortunately, LorenzoThomas, the poets to whom he devotes his analytic energies, and the poetic scenes he documents and participates in are not mainstream or Eurocentric.
For Thomas, Afrocentric poetry is historiography, and Afrocentric literary historiography is a form of *social* witnessing.
LorenzoThomas not only puts away the tin cup in Dancing on Main Street, he breaks out the Wedgwood china.
Thomas shares these fine poets' ability, in that he approaches life as a photographer: he provides quick, biting, single-frame images of various experiences and lifestyles.
Thomas tackles everything from images of growing up young and poor, to the suffering of the Vietnam War, to the nostalgic catches in which we find ourselves in middle age.
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