Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer
Jean Toomerwas an African American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism. His first book Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many to be his most significant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 December 1894
CountryUnited States of America
hurt it-hurts ifs
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
sweet rain flying
Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder
men justice social-justice
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
song eye blood
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.