Considered to be a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, a brief period during the 1920s, this book consists of sketches, poems and stories of rural and urban black African life that evoke images of smoke, sugar-cane, dusk and flame in the southern landscape, while the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative "Cane." The fifty-five poems here--most of them previously unpublished--chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into ...
This is the perfect book of daily meditations for both the soul and the intellect, full of affirmation and wisdom for the times in which we live. This edition of 'Essentials' is the first trade edition of the book. Presented in a compact format, it is full of insight as relevant to today's confusing and contradictory lives as when it was first ...
This Volume brings together everything published by Jean Toomer, known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance Foreword; Well, it finally happened: in the year 2002, some thirty-five years following Jean Toomer's death in 1967, someone finally got around to compiling his uncollected works and publishing them in one magnificient volume. What a boon ...
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