In The Company of Women is an enthusiastic look at the heartfelt dynamics of relationships between women presented in varying forms of poetry, memoir, commentary, quotes and artwork. From laughter to tears, In the Company of Women is a book born of life histories and the journeys taken and navigated by women of wit and wisdom, sass and class. Authors include; Alicia Winski, Amanda LaPera, Annie Brodrick, Annie Hilerio, April Michelle Bratten, Apryl Skies, Barbara Moore, Bina Gupta, Camille Solari, Candice James, Carol Knepper, Carol McAdoo Rehme, Catharine Grasty, Cristina Umpfenbach-Smyth, Cklara Moradian,Gillian Prew, Gloria J. Wimberley, Helena Hunter, Jacqui Corcoran, Jessica Wilson, Karen Jones, Kate Lamberg, Katherine L. Gordon, Kimberley Rockdale, Lauri Langston, Leila A. Fortier, L.K. Thayer, Lois Michal Unger, Martina Reisz Newberry, Melissa Grossman, Pam Lampe, Paula Lietz, Peggy Anne Larson, Petra Whiteley, R. V. Reyes, Sadie Harris, Samantha Ledger, Sheila Crawford, Sheila Hageman, Silver Corbin, Sophia Argyris, Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Teri Louise Kelly, Tracie Skarbo, Trish Falin, Wanda Morrow Clevenger

In The Company Of Women: An Anthology Of Wit & Wisdom, Sass & Class

Literature & Fiction

MOORE, BARBARA

Ledger, Samantha

Unger, Lois Michal

Bratten, April Michelle

Newberry, Martina Reisz

Skies, Apryl

Winski, Alicia

Solari, Camille

Larson, Peggy Anne

Whiteley, Petra

Argyris, Sophia

Grossman, Melissa

Knepper, Carol

Prew, Gillian

Thayer, L K

Corcoran, Jacqui

WILSON, JESSICA

Clevenger, Wanda Morrow

Wimberley, Gloria J

Moradian, Cklara

Leila A. Fortier

Literary

Edgar & Lenore's Publishing

Poetry. Women's Studies. California Studies. Environmental Studies. "Newberry's poems arrive like a friend bearing news. We think we are to hear something ordinary, then suddenly it becomes unusual. Or we find ourselves being told something odd... and it gets even odder. Newberry is a poet of spiritual surprise, a poet of transcending images pulled from a very real, contemporary, attentive woman's life."--John Balaban "Herein you will find poems in which the sky can break into jigsaw puzzle pieces and fall to the ground, the setting winter sun apologizes for leaving homeless people still cold, and a sky full of stars consider their own mortality. These are poems full of magic and ghosts: the corpulent ghost with 'a thunderstorm of a smile' in the title poem and the 'great ghosts' of Geodes. Or the magic can be as simple as the transcendence of snow falling expressed by one who's never seen it fall. Current events creep into these pages in the form of politics ('Me and Amy Lowell'), nuclear contamination ('Act of Retrieval'), and California's wind-driven wildfires. In fact strong winds, primarily the seasonal Santa Ana, blow through many of these poems stirring and clearing the air around them and the reader."--Michael J. Arcangelini "Here is longing for what was and what never was. Newberry uses juxtaposition freely to illuminate life's dichotomies, and in doing so, reminds us that there are always opposites to consider and choices to make. And in the end, those choices define us, both inwardly and outwardly. Where some would object to this collection as being depressing, I found it to be an affirmation of life, of hard times survived, and still kicking. It explores what I believe are common reactions to common experiences...So what do I mean by all this? Only that these poems are worth a careful read, with heart, mind, and memory open to the pain that life deals us, and a ready recognition that none of us are alone in our struggles."--Jim Lewis

Blues for French Roast With Chicory

Poetry

Deerbrook Editions

Poetry. NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE is a book of 99 poems. One endorsment 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 characterizations focusing the reader's attention on the life of the poem and the poem's intent. This book's numbered sequence of poems has no page numbers so the table of contents is a numbered list, and the pages are not devoted to a poem per page but run-on. "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 "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 "Martha Reisz Newberry may not be completely awake, but she is completely aware in these richly sensual poems. As she comes to terms with the aging of the physical body, her spirit waxes ever stronger and wiser in this mature collection. As she tells us, 'It's really about... how much dark you can stand.' But, there's plenty of understanding and enlightenment along the way. Self-reflective, quietly ironic, this poet constantly observes and attends. From the Hollywood Blvd. Wax Museum to the Burningman office, from the death of a brother to the loss of a lover, she leads us through different emotional landscapes, always grounded in beauty. Whether in a vision or a waking dream, she offers us both prayer and wind in the living, breathing world."—Robin Scofield "Transfixed by the hourglass, yearning for continuance the voices invoked by 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

Never Completely Awake

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