Cane by Jean Toomer

Cane is an interesting book. It's regarded as one of the best works of the Harlem Renaissance, and is a pretty dense read. He combines plenty of poetry with prose and drama, and even the prose ends up feeling very poetic. It's very stream-of-conscious-like writing, though not technically, and tells a series of stories from the South focusing on race relations, sexual conventions of the African American community, sugarcane, and general southern-ness. I would not particularly recommend it unless someone is craving a text with integrated parts of prose and poetry. 117 pages.