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
nooses
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
curves rivers feelings
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.