With a Foreword by Waldo Frank.

Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; 1894-1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923).

Toomer continued to write poetry, short stories, and essays. His first wife died soon after the birth of their daughter. After he married again in 1934,