Publisher's Synopsis
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.
