Texana Review offers this:
Interview: Larry Thomas, Texas Poet
(Podcast)
It was November 2005. Houston, Texas. It was dusk. I was looking for an old, cheap window casement.
It was November 2005. Houston, Texas. It was dusk. I was looking for an old, cheap window casement.
I walked through a narrow and rickety old door into the Texas Junk Company and almost knocked over an equally rickety six-foot shelf full of weird colored cowboy boots in a cluttered aisle. I spun around, suddenly lost. The place was stuffed to the ceiling with ... stuff! I couldn't find the door I just entered through, so I scuttled down another cluttered aisle and stumbled into a big, bearded guy wearing the Texas state flag for a shirt.
He smiled a big, broad, friendly smile and held up his new book that had just been published, for me to see. It was titled "Stark Beauty" and it was a book of poetry ... Texas poetry. It was his fifth book. His name was then (and still is), Larry Thomas. He's a poet ... a Texas poet ... and a good Texas poet.
I told him he was perfect candidate for an interview for The Texana Review. He believed me and agreed to chat about his work ...."
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