Cane
Author: first_name: Jean
last_name: Toomer
Language: English
Year: 1923

Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence  of song. Innumerable books have been written about the South; some good books have been written in the South. This book is the South. . . . . Part One is the primitive and evanescent world of Georgia. Part Two is the threshing and suffering brown world of Washington. . . . Part Three is Georgia again . . . this black womb of the ferment seed: the neurotic, educated, spirit