Carolyn Rodgers | |
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Born | Carolyn Marie Rodgers December 14, 1940 Chicago, Illinois |
Died | April 2, 2010 Chicago, Illinois | (aged 69)
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | Roosevelt University |
Notable works | Paper Soul (1968); Songs of a Blackbird (1969) |
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Carolyn Marie Rodgers (December 14, 1940[1] – April 2, 2010) was a Chicago-based writer, particularly noted for her poetry.[2] The youngest of four, Rodgers had two sisters and a brother, born to Clarence and Bazella Rodgers. Rodgers was also a founder of one of America's oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press. She got her start in the literary circuit as a young woman studying under Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in the South Side of Chicago.
Later, Rodgers began writing her own works, which grappled with black identity and culture in the late 1960s. She was a leading voice of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and the author of eleven books, including How I got Ovah (1975). She was also an essayist and critic, and her work has been described as delivered in a language rooted in a black female perspective[3] that wove strands of feminism, black power, spirituality, and self-consciousness into a sometimes raging, sometimes ruminative search for identity. She also wrote deeply on the subject of mother/daughter relationships, particularly focusing on feminist, matriarchal issues.
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