A Jean Toomer Reader

A useful addition to African-American literary scholarship....Properly emphasizes what Toomer critics have identified as the major themes of his life and work.

• I. Cane1: Pre-CaneLetter to Waldo Frank, John McClure, Frank, The Liberator, Lola Ridge, Sherwood Anderson2: CaneLetter to Gorham Munson, Kenneth Macgowan, Frank3: Post-CaneLetter to Frank, Horace LiverightII. The Mystical ExperienceThe ExperienceIII. The Negro, the Blue Man, and the New RaceIntroduction: Prejudice; Germ Carriers; The Fable of a Creature2: The NegroNegro Psychology in The Emperor JonesLetter to Sherwood AndersonThe Negro Emergent3: The Blue ManLetter to Horace Liveright, Waldo FrankNot Typically AmericanFighting the Vice4: The New RaceA New Race in AmericaLetter to James Weldon JohnsonThe AmericansOppose the Force, Not the ManMankind Means BrotherhoodIV. Caught in the MachineTo DykeSellingF. Scott Fitzgerald: A Comment on the Vegetable byDrackmanThe Scottsboro BoysAmerican LetterTo SleepLove on a TrainMan's Home CompanionLumpThe Spoken WordWinter RoadGeorge WashingtonAtomic EnergyV. A Children's StoryMonroviaVI. The Land1 Introduction: Highways Should Be RightwaysIt Used to BeWhy These?The Extremes Are Great2: The NortheastNew YorkThe Brilliant Brotherhood: New York City during the Mystical Experience of 1926DoylestownThe Presence of a Field3: The SouthNight4: Chicago5: New MexicoTo the Land of the PeopleRainbowThe Dust of AbiquiuTaos NightNew Mexico after IndiaPart of the UniverseSanta Fe Sequence6: CaliforniaCarombAmerica's Proposed Riveria: A Chicagoan's Impressions of Los AngelesVII. EpilogueMusicA Double PortraitTo Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred StieglitzTired, I have come to the doorBibliography