138. The Wayward and the Seeking, 127.
139. Ibid., 124.
140. Waldo Frank, “Foreword,” Cane (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923) as reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of Cane (1988), 138 and 140.
141. Ibid., 138–39.
142. The Wayward and the Seeking, 125.
143. Ibid., 125–26.
144. Ibid., 126.
145. The Lives of Jean Toomer, 112.
146. Jean Toomer to Horace Liveright, September 23, 1923, Norton Critical Edition of Cane (1988), 156–57.
147. Ibid., 156–57.
148. The Wayward and the Seeking, 132.
149. Ibid., 132.
150. Ibid., 131.
151. The Lives of Jean Toomer, 115.
152. Ibid., 112.
153. Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keefe (New York: Seaview Books, 1981), 260–65.
154. The Lives of Jean Toomer, 69.
155. Ibid., 199.
156. Ibid., 202.
157. Frederick L. Rusch, A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected and Unpublished Writings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 105.
158. The Wayward and the Seeking, 84.
159. Ibid., 93.
160. Ibid., 127.
161. Ibid., 11–12.
162. Barbara Foley, “Jean Toomer’s Washington and the Politics of Class,” Modern Fiction Studies 42.2 (1996): 289.
163. Ibid., 313.
164. Kerman and Eldridge, The Lives of Jean Toomer, 89.
165. Ibid., 90.
166. “Toomer,” from Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010. Copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Alexander. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press and the author.
167. The Wayward and the Seeking, 93.
168. The Lives of Jean Toomer, 115.
169. Alice Walker, “The Divided Life of Jean Toomer,” in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1983), 65.