You! Inez!
NOTES: from a Holograph manuscript, dated February 16, 1921
Source: The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Volume 2 The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (Oxford University Press, 1988)
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Poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1875–1935
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
Subjects Relationships, Love, Desire
Holidays Valentine's Day
Biography
Poet, essayist, diarist, and activist Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to mixed-race parents. Her African American, Anglo, Native American, and Creole heritage contributed to her complex understandings of gender, race, and ethnicity, subjects she often addressed in her work. Her first book, Violets and Other Tales (1895), was published when she was just 20. A writer of short stories, essays, and . . .
Poems by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
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SUBJECT Relationships, Love, Desire
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
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