Who is Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles S. Johnson called it "the most astonishingly brilliant beginning of any Negro writer of his generation". He resisted being classified as a Negro writer, as he identified as "American". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual tea...
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Jean Toomer Poems

  • Banking Coal
    Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal
    To start the Fire, did his part well;
    Not all wood takes to fire from a match,
    Nor coal from wood before itâ??s burned to charcoal. ...
  • November Cotton Flower
    Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold,
    Made cotton-stalks look rusty, seasons old,
    And cotton, scarce as any southern snow,
    Was vanishing; the branch, so pinched and slow, ...
  • Cotton Song
    Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
    come now, hewit! roll away!
    Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
    But lets not wait for it. ...
  • A Certain Man
    A certain man wishes to be a prince
    Of this earth; he also wants to be
    A saint and master of the being-world.
    Conscience cannot exist in the first: ...
  • A Poem From Transatlantic
    Stretch sea
    Stretch away sea and land
    We are following thee
    Thy lead is dangerous ...
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White 5 Black 5 Song 4 Sun 4 Sweet 4 Never 4 Body 4 Soul 4 Flame 4 Soft 4


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Schweben_weben: drawing of jean toomer by winold reiss, c. 1925 (which reminds me i need to read toomer’s cane)
Ifinestquotes: "we start with gifts. merit comes from what we make of them." jean toomer
Sharetw_: "we start with gifts. merit comes from what we make of them." jean toomer
Inspired2share: "we start with gifts. merit comes from what we make of them." jean toomer
Yosuke_j: men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. by jean toomer
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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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