A Visible Sign (Finishing Line Press, 2008)
A nominee for the Conference on Christianity and Literature's book of the year, my chapbook A Visible Sign can be purchased through Amazon.com or Finishing Line Press.
Barn Owl Review editor Jay Robinson reviews A Visible Sign here
A nominee for the Conference on Christianity and Literature's book of the year, my chapbook A Visible Sign can be purchased through Amazon.com or Finishing Line Press.
Barn Owl Review editor Jay Robinson reviews A Visible Sign here
Praise for A Visible Sign
In this collection Jeffrey Newberry demonstrates again and again that the language of faith is evergreen. These poems are as fresh as Eden's first dew. --Mark Jarman, Epistles
How adroitly Jeff Newberry works with the noticing of contradictions, of paradoxes that make final sense, balance, and harmony. In this way, we welcome his new voice in poetry, his ability to discern new sight in shadow, new vision in breath, how he distills "the spaces between breaths," finding illumination and revelation in that hidden and observed place. His is a "theology of want" in which we may find ourselves reflected. Here is where we find the fine, new voice of Jeff Newberry, a welcome refreshment that gives us again to the detailed image, the new, the alien and the familiar. --Nicholas Samaras, Hands of the Saddlemaker
These poems articulate a journey underway, a daunting, strenuous trek from the realm of words as names for things into the more promising land of words as things, words as powers, agents of reconciliation. I wish the poet a kálo taxídi. --Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected
In this collection Jeffrey Newberry demonstrates again and again that the language of faith is evergreen. These poems are as fresh as Eden's first dew. --Mark Jarman, Epistles
How adroitly Jeff Newberry works with the noticing of contradictions, of paradoxes that make final sense, balance, and harmony. In this way, we welcome his new voice in poetry, his ability to discern new sight in shadow, new vision in breath, how he distills "the spaces between breaths," finding illumination and revelation in that hidden and observed place. His is a "theology of want" in which we may find ourselves reflected. Here is where we find the fine, new voice of Jeff Newberry, a welcome refreshment that gives us again to the detailed image, the new, the alien and the familiar. --Nicholas Samaras, Hands of the Saddlemaker
These poems articulate a journey underway, a daunting, strenuous trek from the realm of words as names for things into the more promising land of words as things, words as powers, agents of reconciliation. I wish the poet a kálo taxídi. --Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected
