Martina Reisz Newberry's Newest Book, HUNGER, is Daring, Complex, and Accessible

Martina Newberry's most recent book, HUNGER, is full of dreaming, grief, joy, sexuality, guilt, 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.

(PRWEB) September 2, 2007 -- Martina Newberry's most recent book, HUNGER, is full of dreaming, grief, joy, sexuality, guilt, 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.

In the last book of Martina Newberry's series, which began with "Running Like A Woman With Her Hair on Fire," followed by "Not Untrue and Not Unkind," and "After the Earthquake: Poems 1996-2006," leaves her readers with as many questions are there are musings.

Admirers of Martina Newberry's poems know that her voice is one which is, in turn, ironic, tender, angry, humorous. She has a profound poetic sense which always surprises and delights her readers.

"Hunger" is written with Newberry's general lack of regard for what is fashionable, popular, academic. In these pages, the author searches the sacred and the secular to find what is behind the world's inability to behave as it hungers to behave.

A few lines from the poem "Living in Lidsville"

Of course I'm scared. Awakened one September morning

by the sight of so many people leaping from windows,

that the sky seemed full of small, colored birds, Fear

breathed its flowered breath into my eyes, nudged

amazement aside, and made its own home in my mind.

"Hunger" by Martina Reisz Newberry is now available from Xlibris Press at:

http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=39774. It will also be available on online bookstores in September 2007. Visit Martina Newberry's website at: http://rollwiththechanges.org/

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