Dunbar, the originator.(Paul Laurence Dunbar)

From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Braxton, Joanne M. | Copyright information

I once referred to accidental Dunbar scholar, understating the fact that I, like many African Americans of my generation, was born in the bed with Paul Laurence Dunbar, born in the bed, as they say, the way that some are born in the bed with gold, with Dunbar as a substantial part of my literary inheritance. My working class high school educated parents shared their love of and loyalty to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry and my mother recited his poems to me while I was literally in t...

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