When he died at just thirty-three years of age, Paul Laurence Dunbar had achieved more than any African American poet before him. Speakin¿ O¿ Christmas and Other Christmas Poems is a posthumously published collection of his most festive-holiday themed verses, including, ¿Chrismus is A-Comin¿,¿ ¿Soliloquy of a Turkey,¿ ¿Christmas in the Heart,¿ and the titular, ¿Speakin¿ O¿ Christmas.¿