{"product_id":"cane-jean-toomer","title":"Cane;  Jean Toomer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1, 1923\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism. His first book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, published in 1923, is considered by many to be his most significant. Of mixed race and majority European ancestry, Toomer struggled to identify as \"an American\" and resisted efforts to classify him as a black writer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe continued to write poetry, short stories and essays. After his second marriage in 1934, he moved from New York to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47798555410754,"sku":"","price":6.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/cane.jpg?v=1707851004","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/cane-jean-toomer","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}