Racing Hummingbirds
Jeanann Verlee
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Racing Hummingbirds examines, critiques, and at times delights in one woman's navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process.
Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings which address gender, sex, race, poverty, heartbreak, and survival with such stark intimacy, you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you, yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclaim hope. They are as the opening poem suggests, nothing short of communion.
Praise
"Racing Hummingbirds is a masterful first collection... They are medicine words."
- The Legendary
"It's poetry with its teeth bared...completely and unapologetically naked."
- PANK Magazine
"...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion, and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an utterly arresting mosaic."
- Danse Macabre
"Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark - much like a razor slashing silk - on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape."
- Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler and Teahouse of the Almighty
"...as visceral and searing as it is compassionate and forgiving.
- Small Press Reviews"
"...one of the most powerful collections I've ever read."
- Roxane Gay, HTML Giant
Accolades
Recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry
Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings which address gender, sex, race, poverty, heartbreak, and survival with such stark intimacy, you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you, yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclaim hope. They are as the opening poem suggests, nothing short of communion.
Praise
"Racing Hummingbirds is a masterful first collection... They are medicine words."
- The Legendary
"It's poetry with its teeth bared...completely and unapologetically naked."
- PANK Magazine
"...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion, and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an utterly arresting mosaic."
- Danse Macabre
"Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark - much like a razor slashing silk - on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape."
- Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler and Teahouse of the Almighty
"...as visceral and searing as it is compassionate and forgiving.
- Small Press Reviews"
"...one of the most powerful collections I've ever read."
- Roxane Gay, HTML Giant
Accolades
Recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry
Product Details
| Publisher | Write Bloody Publishing |
| Publish Date | April 01, 2010 |
| Pages | 112 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780984251551 |
| Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds |
About the Author
Jeanann Verlee is a poet, editor, activist, and former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. Author of Racing Hummingbirds, recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry, her work also appears in The New York Quarterly, FRiGG, PANK, and decomP, among others. An acclaimed performance poet, she has represented NYC six times at National Poetry Slam competitions, performs and facilitates workshops across North America, and curates the Urbana Poetry Slam series at the Bowery Poetry Club. She lives in New York City with her dog and a pair of origami lovebirds
Reviews
...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion, and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an utterly arresting mosaic.
-Danse Macabre Magazine
Any storyteller can recount powerful experience [she] makes you feel something powerful is happening in the telling. It is when safety dissolves that we discover possibility...It's a special person that will make you wish they were your villain.
-Brian S. Ellis
Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark -- much like a razor slashing silk -- on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape. Her unflinching and uncompromising stanzas will change the way you move through the world.
-Patricia Smith
-Danse Macabre Magazine
Any storyteller can recount powerful experience [she] makes you feel something powerful is happening in the telling. It is when safety dissolves that we discover possibility...It's a special person that will make you wish they were your villain.
-Brian S. Ellis
Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark -- much like a razor slashing silk -- on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape. Her unflinching and uncompromising stanzas will change the way you move through the world.
-Patricia Smith
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