STANDARD BOOK NUMBER: 87140-535-0 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 23-12749 Reading this book, I had the vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innumerable books have been written about the South; some good books have been written in the South. This book _is_ the South. I do not mean that _Cane_ covers the South or is the South’s full voice. Merely this: a poet has arisen among our American youth who has known how to turn the essences and materials of his Southland into the essences and materials of literature. A poet has arisen in that land who writes, not as a Southerner, not as a rebel against Southerners, not as …
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