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

by Shange, Ntozake

• ISBN13: 9781451624205
• ISBN10: 1451624204
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-09
• Publisher: Scribner

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 Awardwinningfor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufhas excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised byThe New Yorkerfor "encomshy;passing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,"for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufwill be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundshy;breaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

Author Biography

Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and performer. She wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, as well as numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown; and Liliane.

Table of Contents

Contents

poems by title

dark phrases

graduation nite

now i love somebody more than

no assistance

i'm a poet who

latent rapists'

abortion cycle #1

sechita

toussaint

one

i used to live in the world

pyramid

no more love poems #1

no more love poems #2

no more love poems #3

no more love poems #4

somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff

sorry

a nite with beau willie brown

a laying on of hands