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which was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize

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and a habit of always somehow looking in the opposite direction from everybody else

which won the Ingrid Jonker prize

there would be an urgent need for society to invent someone like him

Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett Ana Blandiana which was also shortlisted forA 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