The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Every poem by the Dayton poet who became the first nationally famous Black American poet: the songs and dialect verse of Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896), which William Dean Howells introduced to the country, and later poems such as "We Wear the Mask" and "Sympathy," whose line "I know why the caged bird sings" Maya Angelou took for the title of her memoir. Lyrics of love, nature and Ohio country life, and some of the sharpest poems of their time about race.