For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf

by Shange, Ntozake

• ISBN13: 9780026098403
• ISBN10: 0026098407
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1977-05-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

Table of Contents

poems by title

dark phrasesgraduation nitenow i love somebody more thanno assistancei'm a poet wholatent rapists'abortion cycle

#1sechitatoussaintonei used to live in the world

pyramidno more love poems

#1no more love poems

#2no more love poems

#3no more love poems

#4somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuffsorrya nite with beau willie browna laying on of hands

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