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Caneby Jean ToomerISBN 0393956008 (0-393-95600-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cane'Book summary:"[Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it." Alice Walker
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.
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- Cane: ISBN 0871401517 (0-87140-151-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Cane: ISBN 0844663670 (0-8446-6367-0)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Cane: ISBN 0871401045 (0-87140-104-5)
Softcover, Liveright Publishing Corporation - Cane: ISBN 0679601090 (0-679-60109-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Cane: ISBN 087140611X (0-87140-611-X)
Hardcover, Liveright - Cane: ISBN 0393956008 (0-393-95600-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Cane: ISBN 0871401517 (0-87140-151-7)
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The Collected Poems of Jean Toomerby Robert B. Jones, Jean Toomer , Margery ToomerISBN 0807842095 (0-8078-4209-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer'Book summary: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 heremost of them previously unpublishedchart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness.
The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying."
Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies. [via]
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Essentialsby Jean Toomer , Charles Johnson, Rudolph ByrdISBN 1588180417 (1-58818-041-7)
Softcover, Hill Street Press, LLC
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A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writingsby Jean Toomer , Charles Johnson, Rudolph ByrdISBN 0195083296 (0-19-508329-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticismby Robert B. Jones, Jean ToomerISBN 0870499386 (0-87049-938-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924by Jean Toomer , Mark WhalanISBN 1572334703 (1-57233-470-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924'Book summary:Considered deeply controversial because of his experimental writing style and complicated racial heritage, Jean Toomer was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and in the twentieth-century modernist movement. Toomer has been the focus of much research, and over the years, his letters have been widely cited by specialists on the literature of the period. The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 is the first-ever annotated collection of the author's correspondence. The letters included in the volume-most of which are in the Beinecke Library at Yale University-were written in the five years surrounding Toomer's publication of his seminal work, Cane. As such, they lend unique insight into the life, aesthetics, politics, and work of a central figure in American literature of the early twentieth century. Mark Whalan's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural Southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America, and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924. On a more personal level, Toomer's struggles with creative isolation and the small world of black Washington society-and later with the New York literary avant garde-are made evident, as are his intense and often domineering relationships with women. His correspondents constituted a who's who of 1920s intellectual life, including Alain Locke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Countée Cullen, Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Lewis Mumford, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe, and Hart Crane. A singular addition to Toomer scholarship, The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 is an invaluable resource for students of the Harlem Renaissance and literary modernism. [via]
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The Uncollected Works of American Author Jeam Toomer, 1894-1967by Jean Toomer , John Chandler GriffinISBN 0773468102 (0-7734-6810-2)
Hardcover, Mellen Press, The, Edwin
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The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomerby Jean ToomerISBN 0882580280 (0-88258-028-0)
Softcover, Howard Univ Pr
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