The poems in Perhaps You Could Breathe For Me resemble almost too closely our own lives. On these pages are rare insights into relationships--the cruel, the complicated, the simple, the joyful, the sexy, the fearful, the painful, the intense. Newberry writes about what can go wrong, what does go wrong, about growing up, about the terrors and wonder of aging. She writes about sexuality, where it begins, and whether or not it ends. These poems are extraordinary as they journey through compassion, anger, strength, and universality. The cadences of ordinary speech make this work accessible, and, still, suggest that something rare and exciting is about to happen. Throughout and finally, Newberrys poems resonate with a search for spiritualityfor a God, she says we pray to, but do not know how to love.
Martina's poems are about relationships, the cruel, complicated, simple, joyful, sexy, fearful, painful, intense. I write about expectations and our ability to fulfill them or fail to do the same . . . what can go wrong, what does go wrong, how much beatings hurt and how much kisses heal . . . about the terrors and wonder of childhood, the terrors and wonder of aging, about sexuality, gender and loneliness.
Poetry. "Martina Newberry is a surprising poet. Just when you think you know what she knows, you don't. She knows more and has the words to prove it. I found myself falling for her sense of things, appreciating not only that she has earned it but that she displays it with a nicely sharp edge."—Eloise Klein Healy "One gets the sense from Martina Newberry's poems of a poet that gets distinctive delight in the surprises of sudden and enlightening insight and discovery through the practice of verse. These poems study with unflinching curiosity the peculiar ways and thoughts of modern human society. The end result are well crafted poems that have a disarming emotional honesty that is simply refreshing."—Kwame Dawes
Summary of HUNGER: Martina Newberry’s most recent book, 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. This book is an achievement in skill, perception, and spirit.
100 Select Poems plus one is a collection of the Wonderful works of the Highly Celebrated Poet and Author, Martina Reisz Newberry. Ms. Newberry's perspectives she has poetically shared with the Public and her Readership over the years has left an indelible mark on all who have had the occasion or pleasure to read her offerings. The "Select" Poems here in this compilation are a sampling of her previous Poetic Publishings. We know you will enjoy them.
If the press covered events-oil spills, crop circles, fashion-the way Martina Reisz Newberry makes poems of them we'd build bonfires all over America and zanily chant, Oh what crackpots we are And if we talked to each other the way she talks to us we'd speak with the wisdom of three hundred- year-old children. Late Night Radio is fun-and then you realize you've acquired a new lexicon of insights. -Djelloul Marbrook, author of Far From Algiers
Summary of HUNGER: Martina Newberry’s most recent book, 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. This book is an achievement in skill, perception, and spirit.
The poems in Perhaps You Could Breathe For Me resemble almost too closely our own lives. On these pages are rare insights into relationships--the cruel, the complicated, the simple, the joyful, the sexy, the fearful, the painful, the intense. Newberry writes about what can go wrong, what does go wrong, about growing up, about the terrors and wonder of aging. She writes about sexuality, where it begins, and whether or not it ends. These poems are extraordinary as they journey through compassion, anger, strength, and universality. The cadences of ordinary speech make this work accessible, and, still, suggest that something rare and exciting is about to happen. Throughout and finally, Newberrys poems resonate with a search for spiritualityfor a God, she says we pray to, but do not know how to love.
100 Select Poems plus one is a collection of the Wonderful works of the Highly Celebrated Poet and Author, Martina Reisz Newberry. Ms. Newberry's perspectives she has poetically shared with the Public and her Readership over the years has left an indelible mark on all who have had the occasion or pleasure to read her offerings. The "Select" Poems here in this compilation are a sampling of her previous Poetic Publishings. We know you will enjoy them.
If the press covered events-oil spills, crop circles, fashion-the way Martina Reisz Newberry makes poems of them we'd build bonfires all over America and zanily chant, Oh what crackpots we are And if we talked to each other the way she talks to us we'd speak with the wisdom of three hundred- year-old children. Late Night Radio is fun-and then you realize you've acquired a new lexicon of insights. -Djelloul Marbrook, author of Far From Algiers
Martina's poems are about relationships, the cruel, complicated, simple, joyful, sexy, fearful, painful, intense. I write about expectations and our ability to fulfill them or fail to do the same . . . what can go wrong, what does go wrong, how much beatings hurt and how much kisses heal . . . about the terrors and wonder of childhood, the terrors and wonder of aging, about sexuality, gender and loneliness.
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