Paul Laurence Dunbar - Alice Dunbar Nelson - Bog

"I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, / When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore..." When he died at just thirty-three years of age, Paul Laurence Dunbar had achieved more than any African American poet before him. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race is a portrait of a man, his talent, and his legacy.