The Wayward and the Seeking : a collection of writings / by Jean Toomer ; edited with an introduction by Darwin T. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.

Contributor:

Turner, Darwin T., 1931-1991, editor, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 450 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1980.

Contents:

I. Autobiographical Selections. Reflections of an Earth-Being; The Early Days; The Maturing Years; The Years of Wandering; The Cane Years; The Gurdjieff Experience

II. Fiction. Withered Skin of Berries; Winter on Earth; Mr. Costyve Duditch

III. Poetry. And Pass; White Arrow; Angelic Eve; Honey of Being; Sing Yes; At Sea; The Lost Dancer; Men; Peers; Mended; One Within; The Blue Meridian

IV. Drama. Natalie Mann; The Sacred Factory

V. Aphorisms and Maxims.

Notes:

Jacket designed by David A. Fridberg.

Includes bibliographical note and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0882580140

OCLC:

940765