THE POET AND OTHER POEMS

by Raymond Garfield Dandridge

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First edition

Cincinnati: n.p. , 1920. First edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati. Fine. Item #50067 Dandridge, a painter and decorator in his early years, changed his profession to telephone coal sales and his creative talents to poetry after polio left him hemiplegic at the age of 29; by the mid-1920s he was literary editor of THE

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