This collection of more than 30 favorites reminds us why Dunbar was celebrated as Black America's "Poet Laureate" and introduces yet another generation to his poems' wit, their power to inspire, to charm and amuse, and to their profound insight into the human condition.
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"(A) must for black-history studies." -- Booklist
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Outstanding Audiobook,
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This review is from: I Know What the Caged Bird Feels: The Best-Loved Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Audio Cassette)
"I Know What The Caged Bird Feels" could easily have been called "The Best of Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poems" because these poems are all my favorites. Ameria Jones' reading of the poems is well-paced, energetic, sensitive and very satisfying. I look forward to what I hope will be a second volume of Dunbar's poems available on Amazon.com. I would never have found this treasure trove of his poetry in a regular book store.
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It was such a let down...,
By Oni Lasana "Oni" (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Know What the Caged Bird Feels: The Best-Loved Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Audio Cassette)
Amerika Jones has a beautiful voice but its wasted on her renditions of the dialect poems...as typical of most Dunbar orators I have heard the dialect is delivered in the most stiff, over or un-dramatic styles...its terrible whats out their, I wanted this tape to be wonderful...I love and have a deep respect for his works... but this production does no justice to the beauty of his words. Audio tape of Dunbars dialect poetry, are available if you would like to hear the "character" in his poems and not the "Amos and Andy caricature"...
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