New Poetry Title from Deerbrook Editions

CUMBERLAND, Maine - April 25, 2017 - PRLog -- Never Completely Awake is a book of 99 completely aware poems. One endorsement called it "nothing short of breathtaking." The substance and acquity of Martina's writing demystifies itself through refractive language. Poems playfully at times, at times seriously, remeasure charactrizations focusing the readers attention on the life of the poem and the poem's intent.


Praise for Never Completely Awake

Newberry quest after ways to transcend, to keep going. Here, struggle and
surrender dance their inseparable tango. Those whose lives she bids us enter exist like storm-driven kites: dipping and rising, finding the heights, fearing the line will snap. Be it rainfall of needles, pack of greyhounds, or a woman attuned to her neighbor, Newberry summons from any and each of these the place where anguish and solace collide, and—if we're lucky—resolve. Hers is a universe freely dipped in various faiths, compelled to ask "how much dark you can stand," even as it offers refuge.

    —Margot Farrington, Author of Scanning for Tigers

Martina Reisz Newberry's newest collection, Never Completely Awake, is nothing short of breathtaking. In poem after poem you find a generous spirit, a stunning acuity of image and vision, and, above all, her rare gift to wake us to a deeper circuitry that helps give our lives their necessary shape and substance. A truly superb collection, an absolute joy to read.

      —Robert Hedin Author, translator, editor, founder of Red Wing Center for the Arts, Red Wing Minnesota

These poems are driven by a passion both sexual and scriptural through configurations of surrender to instinctive logic and imaginative opportunities. Nothing is lost upon her. She treats each moment of each scene as her raison d'etre: Devotion to the project of creative language. The collection or series is endlessly interesting. She is an artist touched by brilliance,and her gifts simply refuse to be denied. I have been blessed in my exposure to her work, as I feel sure, you will be also. Poets, they say, are either born or made. Martina Reisz Newberry is both.

    —Gerald Locklin, Poetry Editor:  Chiron Review.

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