CaneFirst published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary workpart drama, part poetry, part fictionpowerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire. The northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published with