June 27, 1973 (vol. 83, iss. 35) • Page Image 11
…Wednesday, June 27, 1973 pects that characterize much of Black poetry today. IN substance, black poetry is simply the pristine reflections of a young black generation's sensibilities. It is not profound in any sense, and is as unfinished and as unrefined as was the ideology of the "Black Revolu- tion" that inspired it. Rodgers is, at least, more accurate when she concludes that "Black poetry is becoming what it has always heed (sic). What the ...…