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  <default_description>Completely repackaged, this spirited celebration of the African-American soul breathes new life in the rhythmic poetry of beats and movements for which she is renowned. Winner of the Tony Award and the Obie Award for For Colored Girls Who Have Con-sidered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange's poetry is considered some of the most influential in African-American culture.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like a lot of what shange has written (for colored girls, sassafrass, cypress, and indigo, etc.), and i found this in a bookstore, so i want to give some of her poetry a go (although so much of her prose is simply poetic)... ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 26 16:59:53 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of the manuscripts etched into my very spirit (which happens when you read poems that you need to hear in adolescence).  The poems are lovely and strong.  Present and fortifying, though, of course, a little sad sometimes.  <br/><br/>Plus, there's some prose at the beginning before...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8977331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[trying to..i loved for colored girls so much i have to separate this from that..see this as its own work or art...working on it]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like angry, this is your book. Not as polished as her later work.]]></body>
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