02356cam a2200325 i 4500 946282367 TxAuBib 20231002120000.0 230420s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023016033 9780306828515 HRD 30.00 0306828510 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Shange, Ntozake, author. Sing a Black girl's song [BOOK] : the unpublished works / Ntozake Shange ; edited by Imani Perry ; foreword by Tarana Burke. First edition. New York, NY : Legacy Lit, 2023. xxiii, 462 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Early life -- Early poems -- Early vignettes -- Dark rooms -- Plays -- Later poems and short fiction -- Critical essays. In the late ’60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school’s literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know them, each verse, dance, and song a love letter to Black women and girls, and the community at large. Sing a Black Girl’s Song is a new posthumous collection of Shange’s unpublished poems, essays, and plays from throughout the life of the seminal Black feminist writer. In these pages we meet young Shange, learn the moments that inspired for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf…, travel with an eclectic family of musicians, sit on “The Couch” opposite Shange’s therapist, and discover plays written after for colored girls’ international success. Sing a Black Girl’s Song houses, in their original form, the literary rebel’s politically charged verses from the Black Arts Movement era alongside her signature tender rhythm and cadence that capture the minutia and nuance of Black life. -Provided by publisher. 20231002. Drama. Poetry. Essays. Perry, Imani, 1972-, editor. Burke, Tarana, writer of foreword.