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BOOKS
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
Meticulous, contemplative, savvy, wry, angry, and at the same time hopeful in timbre, Newberry's voice speaks out and encourages her readers to search for some kind of harmony and complicity with their surroundings. These moving poems are works of disclosure and remind us that "...to witness must be to speak." To hear a poem from the new audiobook, AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE, click here.
RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE
Martina Newberry's Running Like A Woman With Her Hair on Fire explores the coincident power and vulnerability of the human relationship to its surroundings. Here are poems about nurturing and mourning, lovers, children, friends, relatives--the significant minutiae that forms the ordinary world. Those who people these poems are real; they remember, expect, love, hate, cry, laugh, lose, and sometimes win. Not champions--not outlaws--they relentlessly pursue meaning and reality against the background of a world that often betrays them. These are stories of common experience. There is humor, impertinence, irony, passion and assurance that comes from a well-forged identity and the firm belief that what should happen, will happen. Consistent in tone, precise in language, Martina Newberry's voice introduces private and public thoughts and conversations about things that matter. Without whining, without belligerence, this poetry lives with us rather than outside of us, celebrates our willingness to move on and keep moving on regardless of ease, tragedy or victory.NOT UNTRUE AND NOT UNKIND
"This collection celebrates the raw truth inherent in relationships. Life is not neat and tidy. Messy things happen; pain and suffering are encountered as individuals take risks, become vulnerable, and in the process there is energy, a deliberate sense of being alive and carrying on. [The book] is a lyrical enlightening read full of candid observation, pathos and vitality. You will inevitably pick this collection up time and again to revisit and savor its messages and meaning." David Fraser--Editor"The earth wraps itself around us like one beautiful boa constrictor. We smile as we smother and grow drowsy with caring for each other."HUNGER
Martina Newberry's "Hunger," is daring, complex, and, at the same time, accessible. Found here is dreaming, abstraction, grief, joy, sexuality,guilt, chagrin,anger,and humor. Newberry's voice haunts us with her (and our) perplexity in living in a world that strives for goodness, but is slaked by miscommunication, lies and war. "Hunger" speaks to us of personal and planetary appetites--how and if they are satisfied."We knew then what we have now forgotten: our live are a combination of unlit hallways and traces of sweat., God i aware of the recently resurrected madness."
PERHAPS YOU COULD BREATHE FOR ME
"Martina Reisz Newberry's poetry has the spontaneity, the impishness and the innocence of a reliably daunting friend, the kind who gives voice to just what you’re thinking but also the kind who says that one thing you don’t want to hear at the very moment you least want to hear it. The sort of poet, in fact, who is obsessed with the elephant in the room that everyone else pretends not to see."
--Djelloul Marbrook
Who says lies are ugly? That’s bullshit, she says in Sleeping Goddess. The unlit rooms in my head keep them safe..."AUDIO CDs
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