Publisher's Synopsis
Considered a masterpiece of American modernist literature, Jean Toomer's CANE was unlike anything published before it in 1923, and in 2023 it remains a necessary alternative to the conventions of literature and publishing. With this 100th anniversary celebration of the book, we reimagine the critical edition as an invitation to wonder, speculate, imagine and create. We present our beautifully designed, faithful edition of the genre-defying classic along with a deck of striking, large-format oracular cards. Black thinkers and makers from across and between creative, scholarly and community practices have convened for this project. They offer their insights in the form of prompts, gestures, images, questions, and calls to respond, each presented on a card, paired with an evocative, timeless quote from CANE. Readers can use the deck and book together for insight into CANE, into themselves and for creative inspiration.
Included in CANE: A NEW CRITICAL EDITION:
Our beautifully designed, faithful edition of CANE by Jean Toomer with cover art by Barbara Earl Thomas
A boxed deck of 50+ large-format oracular cards
A companion booklet with more insights into the book and cards, information about contributors and an index of the book's images, ideas and themes.
Fiction. Poetry. Hybrid. African & African American Studies.
