Hunger

By Martina Reisz Newberry

Book Overview

Summary of HUNGER: Martina Newberry's most recent book, HUNGER, is daring, complex, and, at the same time, accessible. Found here is dreaming, abstraction, grief, joy, sexuality,guilt,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425784402
• ISBN13: 9781425784409
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Gets in & stays with you...

Martina Reisz Newberry's HUNGER is an adult book which will tease you, provoke you, scare you & inspire you. If you like poems about fresh cookies, and colorful rainbows & fluffy blankets - then HUNGER is not for you. This collection of poetry is a very real, very organic, living, breathing person. I return to HUNGER much as one might return to a friend or acquaintance. "Did you really mean what you said?", and "What did I miss?" HUNGER is chaotic, compassionate, and occasionally dark and (like most good writing) may take us places we would otherwise choose not go. It gets in there, deep. Extremely moving, and leaves no stone unturned. Get this book.

The "Hunger" In All Of Us.

Martina Newberry's 2007 masterpiece, "Hunger", compells the reader to examine their own euphemisms for heartache and emotional observations. As simple as sitting on a front porch, in a favorite chair and wondering why life rotates the way it does. "Hunger" is a state of being, always empty yet full of life's promises as they choose to reveal themselves. Martina captures another side of existence in "Hunger"; that heartbreaking self-inventory when we question our meaning, our purpose. "Hunger" gives us hope, tears down walls only to build upon the very dreams that are unique. Buried passions that surface hot when days are empty, nights are full, "Hunger" will satisfy the reader's yearning to be free from pre-concieved notions of one's status in the universe... Truth will out through nightmares, carnivals, ice cream cones, tears, laughter, making love or just making something out of nothing. "Hunger" by Martina Newberry will quench thirst and leave you thirsty for more.

A great collection

Martina Reisz Newberry's great gift as a poet is her courage to be honest, in particular about the things many of us think but don't dare say. Her anger and compassion encompass the stranger and the family member alike and embrace all the aspects of life. In "After Christmas and New Year's Day," she writes: The oppressed and the depressed and the undressed: I want serenity for all of them. While in another poem, "Tillie Olsen Did Not Write This," she challenges a cousin and herself to forgive the unforgivable and to understand rather than deny: When there was silence, I said, I know who you mean! Her challenge to readers is for us to admit that we too know who and what she means.

Another wonderful collection

Hunger adds to Martina Newberry's growing list of compelling poetry books. Her poems make me laugh, make me cry, make me think, make me feel. What more can you ask for? Highly recommended book -- and poet.

Hunger by Martina Newberry

In her latest book, "Hunger" Martina Newberry runs the gamut of emotions from anger, frustration, sadness and I'm sure many more that elude me at the moment. It is wonderful to read the works of someone who is so passionate about life and is able to convey it in on paper. Ms. Newberry's writings are piercing and honest and we are taken along on an emotional ride - and what an exciting ride it is. Sharing a few excerpts from some of my many favorites: In "The Aging Game," the author deals with getting older. Any one who is of a certain age will certainly appreciate and relate to this piece: "Instead of a second language, I have learned to avoid mirrors. Instead of being skilled, I am foolish. In the matter of tolerating the intolerabe, I do it-as much as ever-maybe even more. There you have it! Years only give you age. Age can only give you the awareness of years." The entire concept is just one big itch that cannot be scratched." In "What We Did," the writer recalls a tryst she had with a lover:(talk about eroticism!) "Your breath on my shoulder came close to being a threat it was that wild, that ragged. Your fingers, lit from the inside, tattooed wherever they touched. Your mouth created graffiti on my back. Your breath stroked clear through me, kissed me so long, so hard, my lips tasted like bruised apricots." Outstanding also is the poem "As it Turns Out." Although this is not a work that lends itself to excerpts, it is nonetheless a compelling poem about spousal abuse. It is a simple but very honestly and brilliantly written piece. Its structure, I believe, borders on genius. This diversified poetry book of Martina Newberry is interesting and thought provoking. It is a shame that one as talented as she, does not have the name recognitionis so rightfully deserves.