Landmark Harlem Renaissance work combines poetry, drama, and storytelling to contrast African-American life in the rural South with that of the urban North. I love it passionately. - Alice Walker.

Cane is a highly recommended surprising collection of prose, poetry, and drama. Toomer's descriptions of black America in the 1920s is lyrical, full of beauty and darkness- a great example…

This edition of Cane, includes Jean Toomer’s previously hard-to-find essay, The Crock of Problems, in which the author discusses race in America and his own diverse ethnic heritage, and an…

The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Examining his early creative and journalistic…

Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen, author of…

Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the Toomer canon-a consistent, optimistic faith in human possibility and wholeness.

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in…

A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton…