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Jean Toomer

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Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was born in Washington, D.C., the son of educated blacks of Creole stock. Literature was his first love and he regularly contributed avant garde poetry and short stories to such magazines as Dial, Broom, Secession, Double Dealer, and Little Review. After a literary apprenticeship in New York, Toomer taught school in rural Georgia. His experiences there led to the writing of Cane.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 2,065 ratings · 164 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Cane 3.89 avg rating — 2,024 ratings — published 1923 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer by Jean Toomer, Margery Toomer, Robert B. Jones 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Essentials by Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer 1894-1967 (Studies in American Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 58.) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	An Interpretation of Friends Worship 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wayward and Seeking 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	African-American Classics by Langston Hughes (Editor / Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Awakening / Cane / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Jean Toomer 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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“Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.”
― Jean Toomer

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“whisper of yellow globes
gleaming on lamp posts that sway
like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog

and let your breath be moist against me
like bright beads on yellow globes

telephone the power-house
that the main wires are insulate

(her words play up and down
dewy corridors of billboards)

then with your tongue remove the tape
and press your lips to mine
till they are incandescent ”
― Jean Toomer

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“We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”
― Jean Toomer

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