"Purple haze": Dunbar's lyric legacy.(Paul Laurence Dunbar)

From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Nielsen, Aldon Lynn | Copyright information

"The measure of our songs is our desires" --Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Prometheus" 1. 30

"Dunbar" was a name that had a certain gravitational force about it in my youth. For me, as for so many of my generation, it was an ever multiplying geographical designator long before it attached itself in my mind to matters literary. As I moved about from place to place, I found it attached to hotels, hospitals, schools. By the time my family had lodged itself near the nation's capital...

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