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Glyphs

Glyphs

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 "What pulses in us? asks poet Martina Reisz Newberry in her collection, Glyphs. With a sensibility reminiscent of Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska, Newberry employs a deceptively conversational tone to wield resonant insights about the spirit of nature, faith, aging and mortality, and love. She continually surprises with imagery, juxtaposition, and personification, as in 'A Bargain of Earthly Delights': Boats on dark water…seem to me like beings without a future.

  • Author Bio

    Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 7 books of poetry. Her most recent book is Glyphs, available now from Deerbrook Editions.

    She is also the author of Blues for French Roast with Chicory, available from Deerbrook Editions, the author of Never Completely Awake ( from Deerbrook Editions), Where It Goes (Deerbrook Editions), Learning by Rote (Deerbrook Editions), Running Like a Woman with Her Hair on Fire (Red Hen Press), and Take the Long Way Home (Unsolicited Press). Newberry has been included in The Cenacle, Cog, Blue Nib, Braided Way, Roanoak Review, THAT Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, and many other literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad.

    Her work is included in the anthologies Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Moontide Press Horror Anthology, A Decade of Sundays: L.A.'s Second Sunday Poetry Series-The First Ten Years and many others.

    She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts.

  • Reviews

    Endorsed by Suzanne Lummis

    One delightful feature of this collection is that Martina Reisz Newberry can sing to the wind, the sea and the stars then turn around and write a tribute as strikingly specific and sharply observed as "Small Spring on the Property," which tells the tale of "Hazel," who resided in "a trailer in Bentonia, Mississippi/on an acre of land owned by a great-uncle..." where she hid "...from her ex/who threatened to kill her if he ever found her/for taking their big screen t.v. with her/when she left him for the last time,/while he showered."

    Whether shadowed by doubt or traced with a feminist sense of injustice, whether wistful or exultant or humorous, however various the subject matter, the poems of Glyphs have this in common: a sense of wonder at existence and Martina Reisz Newberry's generous and forgiving passion for life.

     —Suzanne Lummis lives in Los Angeles where she is the director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. An award-winning teacher with UCLA Extension, her most recent book is 24 Hours.

    Endorsed by Terry Wolverton

    What pulses in us? asks poet Martina Reisz Newberry in her collection, Glyphs. With a sensibility reminiscent of Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska, Newberry employs a deceptively conversational tone to wield resonant insights about the spirit of nature, faith, aging and mortality, and love. She continually surprises with imagery, juxtaposition, and personification, as in “A Bargain of Earthly Delights”: Boats on dark water…seem to me like beings without a future.

    — Terry Wolverton, author of Ruin Porn. An Affiliate Faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles.

    Endorsed by Rick Lupert

    Reading these poems is like walking through a city’s neighborhoods … each neighborhood with its own characteristics. You’re on the same walk and you can see the connection as you turn a corner from one poem /page /street to the next, even though the one you’ve ended up on tells a different story, and smells and sounds different.

    Martina presents her elevation over this world in a way that resonates with any artist’s filter …or to the common-person who hasn’t yet discovered their inner muse. These poems shine a light for them, and all of us, into realms we are glad to have revealed.

    —Rick Lupert, author of God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion, and The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express

  • ISBM

     978-1-7368477-6-3

  • Buy it Here

    https://www.deerbrookeditions.com/glyphs/

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