Jean Toomer, Artist
Author: Nellie Y. McKay
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936
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Jean Toomer, Artist
Author: Nellie Y. McKay
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780608200842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
Author: Robert B. Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1469616416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness.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.
The Art of the Affair
Author: Catherine Lacey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1632866552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anaïs Nin . . . whom he later bedded. And so it goes, the long chain of love, affections, and artistic influences among writers, musicians, and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles. Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and colorfully illustrated, it's the perfect gift for your literary lover--and the perfect read for any good-natured gossip-monger.
Jean Toomer, the Artist
Author: Nellie Y. McKay
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Toomer and the Terrors of American History
Author: Charles Scruggs
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 151280665X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from Cane and from his identification as a black writer. In Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History, Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr examine original sources—Toomer's rediscovered early writings on politics and race, his extensive correspondence with Waldo Frank, and unpublished portions of his autobiographies—to show how the cultural wars of the 1920s influenced the shaping of Toomer's book and his subsequent efforts to escape the racial definitions of American society. That those definitions remain crucial for American society even today is one reason Toomer's work continues to fascinate and to influence contemporary writers and readers.
A Jean Toomer Reader
Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0195083296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Toomer achieved instant recognition as a critic and thinker in 1923 with the publication of his novel Cane, a harsh, eloquent vision of black American hardship and suffering. But because of his reclusive, introspective nature, Toomer's fame waned in later years, and today his other contributions to American thought and literature are all but forgotten. Now, this collection of unpublished writings restores a crucial dimension to our understanding of this important African American author. Thematically arranging letters, sketches, poems, autobiography, short stories, a play, and a children's story, Frederik Rusch offers insight into Toomer's mind and spirituality, his feelings on racial identity in America, and his attitudes toward and ideas about Cane. Rusch highlights Toomer's reflections on America, its people, landscape, and politics, reveals his significance for the problems and issues of today, and helps us understand Toomer not only as writer, but also as social critic, prophet, mystic, and idealist. Exploring Toomer's attempts to find self-realization and transcend social and cultural definitions of race, this book offers a unique view of the United States through the life of one of its most significant and fascinating intellectuals.
Crisis of Soul
Author: Virginia S. Ridgely
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Drama of the Southwest
Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0826356389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.
Brother Mine
Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0252035402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Unusually valuable for the history of modernism. This fascinating correspondence will create further interest in Toomer, Frank, and the mixed-race environment of the 1920s."---Linda Wagner-Martin, author of Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography --
