PagineJean Toomer’s Cane (1923) mixes poems, stories and drama about Black life in rural Georgia and the urban North. Its lyrical, experimental style made it one of the landmark books of the Harlem Renaissance.
Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.
Source editions for the poems on this page (public domain):
Yes. Jean Toomer’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 5 of them here or as a flip book.
Cane (1923).