Racing Hummingbirds
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780984251551 (0984251553)
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
A book that is amazing, as said many times already, due to its honest and rather "dirty" nature. I waited a couple years to finally find a copy and read it. I'm not too sure whether or not the wait was entirely worth it, but I do know that I felt close to the narrator when reading the poems. I could...
Verlee is my kind of poet, and I would venture my kind of person as well. This work is angry at times, beautiful often, and almost always raw. I could relate to much of it, both the ugliness and the elation. I would recommend this book to those seeking contemporary female poets who aren't afraid to ...
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