Racing Hummingbirds

Author : Jeanann Verlee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904906
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racing Hummingbirds written by Jeanann Verlee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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, “Blood Dazzler” 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, “Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom" ...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

Author : K. K. Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945432194
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hummingbird's Tale written by K. K. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for the biggest race among birds, and it's within the territory of an adventurous little hummingbird with a gift for flying. The fastest birds in the world will be there. It's a race like no other, but it's meant for bigger birds. It's time to be the first of his kind to not only THINK of entering, but to actually TRY to enter the race. Hopefully he hasn't put himself in a situation that could quite possibly be "over his head."

Author : Terry Masear
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544416082
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fastest Things on Wings written by Terry Masear and published by HMH. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming memoir by “one of California’s hardest-working hummingbird rehabilitators . . . will leave the average bird lover agog” (The Washington Post). Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backward. When he arrived in rehab caked in road grime, he was so badly injured that he could barely perch. But Terry Masear, one of the busiest hummingbird rehabbers in the country, was determined to save this damaged bird, who seemed oddly familiar. During the four months that Masear worked with Gabriel, she took in 160 other hummingbirds, from a miniature nestling rescued by a bulldog to a fledgling trapped inside a skydiving wind tunnel at Universal CityWalk, and Pepper, a female Anna’s injured on a film set. During their time together, Pepper and Gabriel formed a special bond and, together, with Terry’s help, learned to fly again. Woven throughout Gabriel and Pepper’s stories are those of other colorful birds in a narrative filled with the science and magic surrounding these fascinating creatures. “This is a book about birds that is actually a book about love, and Masear does us a favor by risking heartbreak every day” (Los Angeles Times). “I cannot believe what a gripping read this is.” —Robin Young, host of NPR’s Here and Now “A book that will change forever the way you look at these little birds.” —Los Angeles Times “This is a charming and lively summertime read, something for the patio or balcony, glass of iced tea at hand, a hummingbird or two zipping around the azaleas.” —Dallas Morning News “I was riveted, charmed, delighted, devastated, profoundly moved, and taken to a magical place few people ever get to glimpse.” —Stacey O’Brien, author of Wesley the Owl

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342182
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Poison Horse written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Poison Horse is the newest poetry collection released by Derrick C. Brown. Brown is the winner of the Texas Book of The Year Prize, 2013. The New York Times calls his work a "...rekindling of the faith in the shocking, weird and beautiful power of words." Brown finally sold the ship, The Sea Section, upon which he lived for years in the Long Beach harbor, after which he took to hunting for a city that was affordable and had a bustling writer's community. He landed in Austin, Texas and when the progress of that town got to be intense, he moved to the nearby countryside in Elgin, Texas, and from that pastoral setting came unfurling this new collection of his most personal work to date. Brown has been known as one of the most touring, well travelled living poets in America. He has based his whole writing career on changing peoples minds about poetry and he feels a quality, unforgettable live experience can achieve that. Brown told himself he needed a 10-year hiatus from writing poetry when he felt the well of creativity had dried up. 2 years ago, he wrote a one-hour long 'poetic play' called Strange Light, commissioned by The Noord Nederlands Dans Group in Holland. The piece was performed by 14 dancers and accompanied by a live orchestra using music composed by fellow Americans, Emily Wells and Timmy Straw. While he was working on a new libretto for Wayne State University in Detroit, he was set up in a seemingly pastoral country setting, where, as Brown says, "an incredible war broke out inside and out, such bright, massive storms, snakes, guns, howling wind, hard sun: all kinds of poems gushed forth. I gave in to the process and my best work to date was born, this will be my 5th book." Our Poison Horse touches on more autobiography than the romantic and fantastical that was so present in his past work. In Derrick Brown's words: "I found a poetry in the real events that shaped or broke me. Every morning, I would quiet down, stare out into the field where we were watching our neighbors horse, a horse that was poisoned with pesticide by some local boys, a horse with massive scars all down its body from it's skin peeling from the poison sprayed upon it maliciously by some bastard kids. I watched the horse heal and finally come to me, and trust me and eat carrots. Something about that horse, Lacey, about it not trusting me and then warming up pulled something out of me that I didn't know I was ready for. There is a theme that in beautiful places, you will

Author : Bucky Sinister
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904493
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Bomb Snooze Alarm written by Bucky Sinister and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran poet of the working class who layers his gritty truths with street punk humor. A menagerie of strange people and stranger moments that linger in the dark hallway of Sinister's life.

Author : Stevie Edwards
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904523
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Grief written by Stevie Edwards and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly-wrought misadventures as a freshly-graduated, Michigan transplant stumbling over foal legs through Chicago and kneeling down to confront the wreckage of her skinned knees.

Author : Megan Falley
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904647
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Witch Hunt written by Megan Falley and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if she discovered a small army of silenced women captive in her pen, Megan Falley releases them in the spilled ink that is her most brilliant collection of poems, After the Witch Hunt. Demanding "if you really love a writer, bury her in all your awful and watch as she scrawls her way out," her book does exactly that. An incessant digging, a journey in building escape routes, armed with both humor and a brazen darkness, each poem in this book of bloodletting is another swing of the pick and axe in this young woman's labor, insistent upon light.

Author : Shanny Jean Maney
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904787
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love Science! written by Shanny Jean Maney and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, poetry and Jeff Goldblum form a covalent bond that puts the poetic fire underneath our bunsen burners. A Lab Tech of words, Maney turns plain language into curious, knowledge-hungry poetry.

Author : Linda Katz, MSW
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1564748081
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise Up! written by Linda Katz, MSW and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of an ethnically and racially diverse classroom of funny, endearing, and often poignant six-year-olds in a Seattle inner-city elementary school. The author, their volunteer literary coach, describes the classroom, their heroic teacher, a number of clever teaching modules, and the evolution of this school toward excellence. The children’s confidences, essays, and poetry sparkle with humor, and the unexpected viewpoints of childhood. Eight captivating students are profiled and featured for us in line drawing illustrations. In the final chapters some startling school district data is introduced as well as three common-sense recommendations to give all kids a fair chance in school. Having learned so much about the realities of public elementary education in her five years in the classroom, the author wanted to share the good news of what is possible with others who might otherwise view this as a grim subject.

Author : Seema Reza
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342034
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Constellation of Half-Lives written by Seema Reza and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Constellation of Half-Lives is a collection of poems that attempt to reconcile the crisis of living on a collapsing planet with the unreasonable joy of loving and the pleasure of being alive. With careful precision and an exquisite eye for detail, poet Seema Reza examines what it means to be a mother, a daughter, and an American in a time of war. Through second-person poems she questions whether the beauty of this world outweighs its fragility and risk.