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benjobuks's review
5.0
Everyone should read this play. Expresses the power and importance of black, female community as space for healing, joy and empowerment.
odd_eye's review
2.0
I don't know if it's because this isn't my preferred style of poetry or what but I didn't like this book. The formatting was a little confusing. It was like my first experience reading Shakespeare: I read this dialect, knowing it's meant to be performed, but I had difficulty envisioning it. Was it the dialect? No. I understood it. Something about the book was a little scattered and all over the place, but there were parts that told an obvious story and parts that stuck out as meaningful to me.
Honestly, I read this because it was given to me as a gift. I had no interest it it nor in the movie adaption.
I will say that I think the movie did a good job of sorting out the confusion of this choreopoem...
(And I don't like Tyler Perry...)
Honestly, I read this because it was given to me as a gift. I had no interest it it nor in the movie adaption.
I will say that I think the movie did a good job of sorting out the confusion of this choreopoem...
(And I don't like Tyler Perry...)
misspalah's review
5.0
I bought this because i need something to read during my long journey on the train. 86 pages of pure emotional ride, that's all i can say. A powerful story of growing up as a black woman with many lenses of seeing life as it was -- prejudice, discrimination, violence, domestic abuse, stigma and so on. I finished this book with one question left unanswered, why patriarchy and misogyny is still relevant ?
readereaterr's review
5.0
Re-read for class and it feels just as good as the first time. Want to cry. And write.
salmonread's review
2020 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge #6: Read a play by an author of color and/or queer author
angelreadsthings's review
3.0
3 1/2 Stars. This choreopoem leaves a deep impression, largely due to the centrality of womanhood throughout. Shange makes it about more than just the external situations and circumstances that affect the colored women, but about the internal issues that affect all women regardless of color or social standing. She touches something deeply spiritual and feminine without ever having to force it and creates something raw and soul-shaking.
mariahroze's review
4.0
I enjoyed the read and hope to see this on stage at some point.
"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-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."
"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-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."
bonhomiebooks's review
4.0
4/5. Simply because this is a prose I am not used to (poetry).
I felt all the emotion, felt it's understanding of what a woman of color may experience in life and I loved it. It's a quick read so if you're like me and not into the choppiness of poetic expression, give it a try, there's definitely something to take from it.
I felt all the emotion, felt it's understanding of what a woman of color may experience in life and I loved it. It's a quick read so if you're like me and not into the choppiness of poetic expression, give it a try, there's definitely something to take from it.