Title
For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem / Ntozake Shange.
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
ISBN
9781451624205
1451624204
9781439186817 (trade pbk.)
1439186812 (trade pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Scribner, 2010.
Language
English
Description
96 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS3569.H3324 F6 2010
Summary
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.
Note
Includes two new poems and a reading group guide.
Beginning, middles, and new beginnings
a mandala for colored girls : musings and meditations on the occasion of the second publication / by Ntozake Shange
[The poems]
[Photographs of stage and screen performances]
Reading group guide.
