Racing Hummingbirds by Jeanann Verlee

Jeanann Verlee’s Racing Hummingbirds is part confession, part prayer, part battle cry,  pulling you into the storm instead of asking you to watch from the sidelines.

Verlee throws herself headfirst into mania, heartbreak, gender, sexuality, race, poverty, and survival with a ferocious voice. Impossible to shake, Racing Hummingbirds is a collection about surviving your own mind—and finding your voice inside the noise.

Step inside the heart of mania, blurring the lines between observer and participant.

She is a tornado.
He is a man. He is solid and humble.
She tells the story three times, convinced
he does not understand. He is trying.
The story is about an elephant and a mermaid.

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Jeanann Verlee is the author of prey, Said the Manic to the Muse, and award-winning Racing Hummingbirds. She has received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, the Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the Sandy Crimmins Prize. Her work appears in Academy of American Poets, Adroit, and BuzzFeed, among others.