After The Earthquake

About the Book

The poems in this remarkable collection speak of those things that linger from the past and carry through to the present and into the future: violence, war, love, anger, yearning, the fragility of sanity, journeys remembered, journeys not yet taken. Meticulous, contemplative, savvy, wry, angry, and at the same time hopeful in timbre, Newberry’s voice speaks out and encourages her readers to search for some kind of harmony and complicity with their surroundings. These moving poems are works of disclosure and remind us that “…to witness must be to speak.”

About the Author

Martina Reisz Newberry lives in Hollywood, California with her husband, Brian, a gifted graphic/web designer and their cat and dictator, Gato. An only child, she has kept herself company by writing since she was 7 years old. She is both a poet and a novelist. Ms. Newberry has been widely published in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Two of her books, The Banyan and the Alder and Not Untrue and Not Unkind were published by Arabesques Press in Algeria and will be included in Algeria’s first National Library. Her most recent books are HUNGER and AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE.