Some quotes from reviews of Martina Reisz Newberry’s poetry:
“…Taking their cue from the seasons and popular songs, the poems sizzle as well as lament…These bittersweet poems mine new territory. These poems light the way.”
– Alexis Rhone Fancher
“…these poems are worth a careful read, with heart, mind, and memory open tothe pain that life deals us, and a ready recognition that none of us are alone in our struggles.”
– Jim Lewis
“Newberry accepts and celebrates our willingness to accept the ever-changing, daily bibles that come to us–“new things to be and do and bow to.”
– Red Hen Press
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“”Newberry uses plain, beautiful language to pry open the profound, to describe the stammer and palsy of love; to introduce us to her city, to the way LA’s yellowish sky / holds a face like famine…One poem claims, I saved nothing, but in this brave, tender book, Martina Reisz Newberry ministers to our pulled muscle of the soul and saves us, again and again.”
– Francesca Bell
Newberry embodies a compelling story telling style reminiscent of Robert Frost, the enigmatic brilliance of Emily Dickinson and the working class insights of John Prine.”
– Saul Landau
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“I am plain bowled over by Newberry’s poems…for the pure strength of their language and the surprises, light and dark, that they unroll.”
–Josephine Humphries
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“Newberry is an artist touched by brilliance, and her gifts simply refuse to be denied. Poets, they say, are either born or made. Newberry is both.”
– Gerald Locklin
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“Newberry is a poet of spiritual surprise, a poet of transcending images pulled from a very real, contemporary, attentive woman’s life.”
– John Balaban
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