A review by hwestenhofer
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

4.0

This read was something new and completely unexpected for me. It's a captivating "new" genre created by the poet called a choreopoem, and it was absolutely stunning. Beautiful lyricism saturates the text as it weaves a narrative of Black womanhood. It's truly one of the most awe-filled poems I've read in a long time, in part because of how inventive the genre is. I don't have a ton to say about it because it was just so captivating. I only knocked it down a star because I feel like it's meant to be performed (which it is).