Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer was an American poet. His first book Cane is considered by many as his most significant. Many scholars considered Cane to be his best work. A series of poems and short stories about the black experience in America, Cane was hailed by critics and is seen as an important work of both the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation. Toomer resisted racial classification and did not want the book marketed as a black work.

Poems