| Edition |
Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
96 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes new poem "postive", addressing AIDS. |
| Summary |
A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman regarding the women of her race. |
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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. |
| Contents |
Beginning, middles, and new beginnings -- a mandala for colored girls : musings and meditations on the occasion of the second publication / by Ntozake Shange -- 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 usedta 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 -- positive -- a nite with beau willie brown -- a layin on of hands -- Photographs from stage and screen performances -- Reading group guide. |
| Subject |
African American women -- Poetry.
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Women, Black -- United States.
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Verse drama.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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Verse drama. (OCoLC)fst01165441
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Women, Black. (OCoLC)fst01178916
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Title |
When the rainbow is enuf |
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For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enough |
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When the rainbow is enough |
| ISBN |
9781451624205 (hardcover) |
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1451624204 (hardcover) |
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9781451624151 (ebk.) |
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