by Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd
A wonderful, magisterial voice - at its best, up there with Whitman - but young and unfinished. It has that explosive, tightrope feel of some early works by brilliant writers. It's known as the first important Black novel of the Harlem Renaissance, which is funny because it's not a novel and Toomer ...
Classic of the Harlem Renaissance. First heard of via Alice Walker, who adored the pictures of black Georgian farmwomen. The first section is vignettes set in the rural south, the second is slightly longer stories set in the urban south, the third is a single long story with play-like aspects from...
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