Ntozake ShangeFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Sprecher: Newton, Thandie
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a renowned playwright, poet, theater director, and novelist. Her body of work includes Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Some Sing Some Cry with Ifa Bayeza, and the posthumous Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance and I Am an Old Woman. Among her numerous accolades are the Langston Hughes Medal for Literature, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s 2018 Shelley Memorial Award and three AUDELCO awards. Ms. Shange’s work has been nominated for a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy.
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
