Mystery
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This collection of 22 poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar explores themes of race, identity, and the African-American experience. Dunbar uses a variety of poetic forms and styles, including dialect poems, sonnets, and free verse. The poems in The Mystery are powerful and moving, and they offer a unique perspective on the African-American experience.Book Details
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the Ame...
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