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Racing Hummingbirds
Silver Medal Winner:Independent Publisher Book Awards -Poetry (2010)
Racing Hummingbirds takes readers into one woman's journey through the multifaceted realms of manic depression.
Within these pages, Verlee's award-winning debut collection unfolds as a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings that fearlessly tackle subjects like gender, sexuality, race, poverty, heartbreak, and the unyielding spirit of survival. The intimacy of her words invites readers to step inside the very heart of these themes, blurring the lines between observer and participant.
As you immerse yourself in the pages of Racing Hummingbirds, you'll find your emotions tapped in to the raw and evocative landscape that Verlee masterfully paints.
Her words create an immersive experience, one where you'll intimately explore the depths of human emotion, from the darkest struggles to the resilient spirit that carries us through.
Within these pages, Verlee's award-winning debut collection unfolds as a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings that fearlessly tackle subjects like gender, sexuality, race, poverty, heartbreak, and the unyielding spirit of survival. The intimacy of her words invites readers to step inside the very heart of these themes, blurring the lines between observer and participant.
As you immerse yourself in the pages of Racing Hummingbirds, you'll find your emotions tapped in to the raw and evocative landscape that Verlee masterfully paints.
Her words create an immersive experience, one where you'll intimately explore the depths of human emotion, from the darkest struggles to the resilient spirit that carries us through.
Book Details
- Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
- Publish Date: Apr 10th, 2010
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.51in - 0.26in - 0.33lb
- EAN: 9780984251551
- Categories: • American - General• Women Authors• Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
About the Author
Verlee, Jeanann: - 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.
Praise for this book
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
-Patricia Smith
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
-Brian S. Ellis
...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
-Danse Macabre Magazine