Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Ana Blandiana As the blossom falls through

As the blossom falls through Tree’s pages

but extinct species

such as wulvers

so they almost appear to be refracted in moonlit water

Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Ana Blandiana As the blossom falls throughA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the poet laureate of his race hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a caged