This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).
- A revised and expanded introduction, featuring new archival discoveries, and annotations by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Jesse McCarthy.
- Thirteen illustrations related to Toomer's life, which are new to the Third Edition, and the map of Sparta, Georgia, that accompanies the text.
- Thirty-five background selections that feature additional writings by Toomer and extensive excerpts from his personal correspondence.
- Twenty-five critical responses-nine of which are new to the Third Edition-from contemporary and modern critics examining important themes in the work. A chronology of Toomer's life and a selected bibliography.
