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

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A paperback edition of the choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. The cover of the book has the title printed in a rainbow decorative text against a white tiled wall, with a color illustration of a woman in an orange headscarf at the bottom left. Along the left side is a band of black with white text reading [A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange] and along the top is a red band with white text reading [THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY TYLER PERRY]. The interior contents begin with a page with several blurbs from critics, a page with a list of works by Shange, the title page, a dedication page, and a listing of the twenty included poems by title. There are 64 pages total, with no illustrations.

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