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Автор: Jean Toomer
Издательство: Ingram
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isbn: 9789176378595
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      CANE

      CANE

      Jean Toomer

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      Jean Toomer

      CANE

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      Wisehouse Classics

      © 2020 Wisehouse Publishing | Sweden

      All rights reserved without exception.

      ISBN 978-91-7637-859-5

       Half-Title Page

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Contents

       Dedication

       KARINTHA

       REAPERS

       NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER

       BECKY

       FACE

       COTTON SONG

       CARMA

       SONG OF THE SON

       GEORGIA DUSK

       FERN

       NULLO

       EVENING SONG

       ESTHER

       1

       2

       3

       CONVERSION

       PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA

       BLOOD-BURNING MOON

       1

       2

       3

       SEVENTH STREET

       RHOBERT

       AVEY

       BEEHIVE

       STORM ENDING

       THEATER

       HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE

       CALLING JESUS

       BOX SEAT

       1

       2

       PRAYER

       HARVEST SONG

       BONA AND PAUL

       1

       2

       3

       4

       KABNIS

       1

       2

       3

       4

       5

       6

      To my grandmother . . .

      Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon,

      O cant you see it, O cant you see it,

      Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon

       . . . When the sun goes down.

      Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down. Old men rode her hobby-horse upon their knees. Young men danced with her at frolics when they should have been dancing with their grown-up girls. God grant us youth, secretly prayed the old men. The young fellows counted the time to pass before she would be old enough to mate with them. This interest of