About this title: 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.
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean unmarked pages. Light cover wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 116 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Perennial Classic #P3087. 239 pgs in vg reading condition w/some wear on edges; cover has some wear and pen markings on front. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition. Full number line.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780871401045ISBN:0871401045
Description: G+; No dust jacket as issued. Page edge foxing. 116 p. Audience: General/trade. Re-issue of innovative 1923 fiction, African American life in Georgia and other parts of the South. read more
Binding: Softcover-Underlining
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780871401045ISBN:0871401045
Description: Good Reading Copy. 0871401045 underlining. read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very good paperback copy, barely used. The binding is solid, and there are no reading creases in the spine. The cover shows almost no wear. The text is entirely free of marks, notes and underlining. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Introduction by Darwin T. Turner. Originally published in 1923, this book, a mixed form of short fictions and poetry, was the first significant book of the Harlem Renaissance. It expressed the ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1969-01-01
Description: Good. An average used paperback with wear, corner bumps, small creases, light stains, etc. Binding is tight. P/O name is on FFEP. Text is clean and unmarked but pages are yellowed with age. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, U.S.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780871406118ISBN:087140611X
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 087140611x. Age-tanning pages; Clean, tight; read once gently and looks unread; no marks, tears, or writing. Introduction by Darwin T. Turner. Harlem Renaissance masterpiece of life in rural Georgia.; 24mo 5"-6" tall; 116 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Liveright
Date Published: 8/17/1993
ISBN-13:9780871401519ISBN:0871401517
Description: Fine. 0871401517 NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black ink mark on outside edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Description: Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have had little if any use. The cover has some bumps, scuffs, fading and corner bumps. There is no creasing on the spine. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780393956009ISBN:0393956008
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. A great used copy with like new pages. Cover has some edge wear and one corner is slightly curled. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Norton Critical Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I am currently reading this book, considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance. I am absolutely loving it. Jean Toomer is such an incredible writer. It has short story, prose and poetry. It is so amazing that this book was first published in 1923. It does not seem dated AT all. I highly recommend this work. I will definitely be seeking other works by this brilliant author!"
I am in the processing of reading this book and I must tell you, it is quite beautiful, but redundant. Cane is a master at figurative language, except he keeps mentionging lines like pine needles". The women in his stories do not seem to have a dark skin tone, most of them are fair, which leads me to believe that the women are a portrayal of Toomer himself, who was light enough to pass for white. His stories are so predictable and I found myself depressed by the time I reached the story "Avey". Why must each story have a negative or bad ending? It is as if he is following the clicheish them of "the tragic mullatto" which was popular in his time. You would think such a brilliant man wouldn't lower himself to those standards. So, Cane is a book that you COULD read, but there are much better options to choose from."
Within this black hive to-night There swarm a million bees; Bees passing in and out the moon, Bees escaping out the moon, Bees returning through the moon, Silver bees intently buzzing, Silver honey dripping from the swarm of bees Earth is a waxen cell of the world comb, And I, a drone, Lying on my back, Lipping honey, Getting drunk with silver honey, Wish that I might fly out past the moon And curl forever in some far-off farmyard flower."
"The moon was brilliant. The air was sweet like clover. And every now and then, a salt tang, a stale drift of sea-weed. It was not my mind's fault if it went romancing.
Hell of a note, this loving business. For ten minutes of it youve got to stand the torture of an intolerable heaviness and a hundred platitudes. Well, damit, shoot on."
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