Jean Toomer, Artist
Author | : Nellie Y. McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936
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Author | : Nellie Y. McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936
Author | : Robert B. Jones |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1469616416 |
This 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 The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness.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.
Author | : Catherine Lacey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1632866552 |
A 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.
Author | : Nellie Y. McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean Toomer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0195083296 |
Jean 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.
Author | : Jean Toomer |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252035402 |
"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 --
Author | : Jean Toomer |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 0826356389 |
This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.
Author | : Carl Lavo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2015-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780998120805 |
Travel the byways of Bucks County and discover the many interesting towns, parks and museums in this historic county.