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“Song of the Son”: The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer copyright © 2011 by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reprinted from Cane: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism, Second Edition (A Norton Critical Edition), New York: Norton, 2011

Elizabeth Alexander, “Toomer” from Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010.
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