For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

2.5

A series of poems connected through the use of stage directions to form a “choreopoem”, a term coined by the author. Several ladies tell different stories about growing up as a black woman in America. Many of the experiences are pulled from the author's life. Absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful, this is a masterpiece of poetry as storytelling. If you haven't read this yet, you need to.

Dark play, written as poem, relating
lives of black women. Captivating.
A tiny bit preachy at times.