by Ntozake Shange
I have to say that I loved this play. It was a bit weird to read the stage directions along with the poetry that was being said by these characters, but it was quite easy to read and follow.For colored girls is considered a choreopoem (i.e. there are monologues that also include dance and music) wit...
Title: for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf Author: Ntozake Shange Genre: poetry Type: Library loan Synopsis: 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...
The Accidental Reader When I watched the movie For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuff I loved the way the plot flew and the poems...oh the poems were amazing. Two years later I picked the book expecting to find poems in it but what I found was a play. This particul...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange is probably one of the realest poems I have ever read. These are the stories about coming of age and what these women are going through in terms of heartbreak, assault, abandonment and finding their redemption...
brilliant.
I read this book in high school and wound up using several poems for poetry competitions. Reread it in college and then saw the Broadway production (loved it). Recently saw the new movie and decided to read it once more. It still packs a powerful punch.
SO not my thing.
Dark play, written as poem, relating lives of black women. Captivating. A tiny bit preachy at times.
Saw this performed at Brown when I was an undergrad and knew it was a book I wanted to own. It was marvelous, powerful stuff.
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