For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf
Subtitle: a choreopoem
By: Ntozake Shange
Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781439186817; 9781451624205; 9781451624151
Subjects: Poetry; African American women
Description: First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Notes: Includes two new poems and a reading group guide.
Table of contents: title: Beginning, middles, and new beginnings; title: a mandala for colored girls : musings and meditations on the occasion of the second publication / by Ntozake Shange; title: [The poems]; title: [Photographs of stage and screen performances]; title: Reading group guide.