How long does it take to read For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf?
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1975. 64 pages, about 17,600 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Subjects: Poetry, African American women, Poetry (poetic works by one author), PERFORMING ARTS, American poetry
