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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1988
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- Title
- The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807817732
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817735
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.
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