{"title":"Lorenzo Thomas","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"civil-disobediences","title":"Civil Disobediences","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn anthology edited by Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eJune 1, 2004 • 6.5 x 9.75 • 425 pages • 978-1-56689-158-5\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWith incisive energy, wit, and wisdom, these powerful essays explore the intersection between poetry and politics.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs art’s role in engaging society and coalescing dissent becomes more apparent and more urgent, \u003cem\u003eCivil Disobediences\u003c\/em\u003e offers a manual for understanding poetry’s history and enacting its ultimate power to dismantle and recreate political and cultural realities. Composed of essays, lectures, and teaching materials by leading Beat and contemporary poets and scholars, this anthology explores the craft of poetry as well as the history of poetic\/political action in the U.S. and abroad, the development of ancient and modern poetic forms, the legacy of world-renowned poets, and the intersections between poetry and spirituality. It also provides concrete advice about bringing poetry into your local community and ensuring that “poetry is news that stays news.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Adam • Ammiel Alcalay • Amiri Baraka • Ted Berrigan • Robin Blaser • Reed Bye • Jack Collum • Robert Creeley • Samuel R. Delany • Robert Duncan • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Alan Gilbert • Allen Ginsberg • James Grauerholtz • Barbara Guest • Bobbie Louise Hawkins • Anselm Hollo • Laird Hunt • Pierre Joris • Joanne Kyger • Eileen Myles • Alice Notley • Michael Ondaatje • Sonia Sanchez • Edward Sanders • Eleni Sikelianos • Gary Snyder • Cole Swenson • Arthur Sze • Steven Taylor • Robert Tejada • Lorenzo Thomas • and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eCivil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action\u003c\/em\u003e and the author of over forty books, including \u003cem\u003eIn the Room of Never Grieve\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, \u0026amp; Manifestos.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Birman has been teaching writing for the past ten years in the United States, Australia and the Czech Republic. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eFor That Return Passage—a Valentine for the United States of America,\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor with Anne Waldman of the anthology \u003cem\u003eCivil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action,\u003c\/em\u003e and has published several chapbooks of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eO–A Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003edeportation poems.\u003c\/em\u003e Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eMilk Poetry Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky, Trickhouse, Poetry Project Newsletter, thuggery \u0026amp; grace, 26, admit2, Bombay Gin,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003enot enough night. \u003c\/em\u003eLisa works as a content editor, copyeditor, and proofreader. She is also the Director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she teaches for the MFA in Creative Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“A valuable and inspiring collection that explores the cross sections of culture and politics and the art of dissent.” \u003cstrong\u003e—David Barsamian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here, finally, is a book I can teach year after year without fear of its becoming dated. The intense pursuit and practice of poetry at Naropa University is astonishingly fresh and alive in this collection by the crème-de-la-crème of the avant-garde. Students, poets, and, for that matter, anybody interested in ideas can spend a useful eon dreaming herein. As my old master, Ted Berrigan, says ‘You can to be true, and you owe everything to your feelings, and you have to make sure you get them right.’ This book doesn’t just get them right, it puts them to work in the fantastic universe, in gorgeously erudite, playful, and painful explorings.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Andrei Codrescu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book one can feast on, an exciting collection of poetry, ponderings, interviews, reminiscences, by a brilliant assemblage, including Allen Ginsberg, Michael Ondaatje, Amiri Baraka. The extraordinary piece by Sonia Sanchez and Ed Sander’s ‘A Tribute to Sappho’ are alone worth the price of admission.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Howard Zinn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here is the true Department of Peace. Intellectual thought and devotion to poetry as activist goodwill. 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Dancing on Main Street, Thomas’s long-awaited collection spanning many decades of his career, blends traditional lyricism with a surrealist’s touch and a realist’s eye. Together, these poems form a cinematic look at the obsessions, -pleasures, trials, and tribulations of life on Main Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLorenzo 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 \u003cem\u003eChances Are Few, The Bathers,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSound Science\u003c\/em\u003e. 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