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Dunbar lives!(Paul Laurence Dunbar)

African American Review

| June 22, 2007 | Alexander, Elizabeth | COPYRIGHT 2007 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In the course of writing this essay, I have found something that surprised me: Dunbar matters very much to contemporary African American poets. And I have also discovered how Dunbar matters to me. Several years ago I had a conversation with another African American poet. We ranged from topic to topic to topic, and I mentioned that when I was growing up my father would occasionally recite Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Party." He did so joyfully and apropos of nothing but exuberance, as far as my brother and I could tell:

 
   Dey had a great big pahty down to Tom's de othah night; 
   Was I dah? You bet! I nevah in my life see sich a sight; 
   All de folks f'om fou' ...
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