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Jean Toomer (1894 - 1967)
Jean Toomer's Cane is a thick, poetic, moody work of literary art.  During the Harlem Renaissance, he seemed destined for greatness in writing---but, unfortunately, he had trouble getting published thereafter.

 

Toomer poetry

 

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List of Works

 

Cane

 

Balo: A One Act Sketch of Negro Life

 

Banking Coal

 

Easter

 

 

 

 

. . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

 

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

 

 

 

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