Cane
Author: Jean Toomer
“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing…This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.” —Maya Angelou,,First published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer’s impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of South….Read More
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