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Take the Long Way Home Paperback – August 7, 2017

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Take the Long Way Home addresses the various paths and pathologies that take us from where we are to where we may be going.“Women are always displaced persons/born searching for someone/someplace to be.”Martina Reisz Newberry’s fine new collection explores the mixed blessings of a long life,how desire lingers, even as beauty fades. Taking their cue from the seasons and popular songs, the poems sizzle as well as lament,” says Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of HOW I LOST MY VIRGINITY TO MICHAEL COHEN AND OTHER HEART STAB POEMS, and STATE OF GRACE.A perfect book for end-of-summer reading, this gathering of poems talks, dreams, and ponders with the reader. Think of it as a companion for walks in the woods or along the beach--the staples of summer’s end. These poems connect. Whether the reader is twenty-five or ninety-five, the theme of finding home and of life changing at every moment is universal and beautifully accessible.
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  1. Print length
    128 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    August 7, 2017
  4. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.32 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1947021052
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1947021051
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Martina Reisz Newberry’s most recent book is TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (due out in 2017 from Unsolicited Press). She is also the author of WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press) Ms. Newberry is the winner of i.e. magazine’s Editor’s Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998: AN APPARENT, APPROACHABLE LIGHT. She is also the author of LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH—a memoir of her father, (one of the first men ever to be hired at Kaiser Steel in Fontana, CA in 1943)—published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989. Newberry has been included in “It Happened Under Cover,” Ascent Aspirations’ first two hard- copy anthologies, also in the anthologies “In The Company Of Women,” “Blessed Are These Hands,” and “Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women”. She has been widely published in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and at Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts. A passionate lover of Los Angeles,Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian Newberry, a Media Creative.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Unsolicited Press (August 7, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1947021052
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1947021051
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.32 x 8 inches
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Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE (Deerbrook Editions), TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (Unsolicited Press), WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press)

She is also the author of LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH—a memoir of her father, (one of the first men ever to be hired at Kaiser Steel in Fontana, CA in 1943)—published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989.

Newberry has been included in It Happened Under Cover, Ascent Aspirations’ first two hard-copy anthologies, also in the anthologies In The Company Of Women, Blessed Are

These Hands and Veils, and Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women. She has been widely published in literary magazines such as: The Amaranth Review, After Happy Hour Review, Ascent Aspiration, All Roads Will Lead You,

Arabesque Review, Balkan Press, Bella, Connotation Press, The Cenacle,

Commonline, Calyx Magazine, The Charles Carter Anthology, Eunoia Review, Into the Void, Journal of Applied Poetics, Literary Nest, Poets and Dreamers, Two Hawks Quarterly, Wilderness House Literary Review, and many others in the U.S. and abroad.

She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony

for the Arts, and at Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts.A passionate lover of Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure trip through life
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Martina Reisz Newberry was the guest poet at a reading. Once I heard her I had to follow her and get her book. I live in Los Angeles and she has captured the life here in such a beautiful way with her poem "October Ode" another of my favorites is "Birdsong". Her reading inspired me to write my book INSPIRE ME: RAW  Inspire Me: Raw

Thank you, Martina. I highly recommend this book.
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