I Know What the Caged Bird Feels: The Best-Loved Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Summary: Outstanding Audiobook
Review: "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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Summary: It was such a let down...
Review: 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"...