Essentials
By: Jean Toomer ; edited with an afterword by Rudolph P. Byrd ; preface by Charles Johnson.
Contributors: Byrd, Rudolph P.
Series: A Hill Street classics book; Hill Street classics.
Publisher: Hill Street Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms
Description: "Essentials is the perfect book of meditations; a timeless collection of aphorisms and a seminal work of the Harlem Renaissance. This book explores many of the same themes that emerge in Cane: man's modern search for wholeness, connection, and resolution in an age of fragmentation, alienation, and exploitation.

In a unique blending of Eastern religious belief and modern psychology - inspired by his extended study with G.I.Gurdjieff - Toomer reflects on topics ranging from the dangers of industrial society to the failure of modern religious and educational institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).
Originally published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1991; first published 1931.