 Perhaps You Could Breathe For Me |
WorksPerhaps 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. PERHAPS YOU COULD BREATHE FOR ME "...[is] not prettied up speech, it’s not stylized language; it’s the language with which you address yourself, the dialogue that enables you make sense of what you encounter. In a sense, it’s the language we dare not speak for the consequences, but when we do speak it we recognize it as far more daring and elegant than our ordinary banter.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. This book is an achievement in skill, perception, and spirit. After the Earthquake
The poems in this remarkable collection speak of those things that linger from the past and carry through to the present: violence, war, love, yearning, the fragility of sanity, journeys remembered, journeys not yet taken. These moving poems are works of disclosure and remind us that “…to witness must be to speak.” NOT UNTRUE & NOT UNKIND
Martina Newberry speaks of connections and disconnections, relationships built and relationships broken, frozen moments, childhood remembrances, the yearning for love and the pain of loss. RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE
The book's forty-four poems are endowed with a sorrow and anger that lurks in even the most innocent and peaceful moments, in children's games and the bliss of a marital bed. While such emotions might easily come across as belligerence or even self-absorption in a poet of lesser talent, Newberry's sorrow and rage--towards God, towards former lovers, even towards herself--always feels authentic and always hits close to the bone because of its unflinching honesty. LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: A MEMOIR OF THE OPEN HEARTH
Martina Durbin (Newberry) unabashedly re-creates the magical world of childhood when parents stride across the stage of life like giants. In brilliant prose, filled with humor, warmth, and love, she celebrates the working class she comes from. |
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