Ntozake Shange
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem.
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. Second printing. 0026098407 64 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gilt-lettered dark blue cloth spine and yellow paper-covered boards. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Faded ink stamp with price appears at top of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price of $5.95 on front flap, displays shelfwear, with small perforation at bottom of front spine edge and very minor loss at top edge of spine panel.
American playwright and poet Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. This theater piece, a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music weaving interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood, was winner of the Obie Award,  Outer Critics Circle Award, and the AUDELCO Award.