Brackish (Aldrich Press, 2012)
A review of Brackish by Dominka Wrozynski at Apalachee Review
A review of Brackish by Guillermo Cancio-Bello at The Florida Book Review
A review of Brackish by Justin Evans (Hobble Creek Review editor)
A short review of Brackish by Brenda Rose at the Georgia Writers Association blog.
Brackish is available from Aldrich Press or Amazon.com.
A review of Brackish by Dominka Wrozynski at Apalachee Review
A review of Brackish by Guillermo Cancio-Bello at The Florida Book Review
A review of Brackish by Justin Evans (Hobble Creek Review editor)
A short review of Brackish by Brenda Rose at the Georgia Writers Association blog.
Brackish is available from Aldrich Press or Amazon.com.
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Praise for Brackish
Brackish evokes every bit of elegy for the grueling life of a working class family as does Philip Levine’s They Feed They Lion. Jeff Newberry’s Port St. Joe, Florida, stuns us, though not with a pictorial Florida beach, but with the non-tourist view of growing up in a paper mill town that nearly destroys its people and the gulf waters. These luminous and color-tinted snapshots include a father never quite present, swallowed by work and stench of pulp mill; the kids who dare not have hope, so daredevil sometimes to their ends; the fishermen weighted by nets that don’t bring in enough to survive. Yet a watchful narrator dances his way out of this tragedy, made wiser, always glancing back.
~Mary Jane Ryals, Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida and author of Cookie & Me and The Moving Waters
Brackish is an illuminating and pitch-perfect portrait of a region and a people, and Jeff Newberry’s wonderful collection also serves as a powerful demonstration of the role that the places we call home have in both shaping and cursing us. These haunting, evocative poems will stay with you for a very long time.
~Skip Horack, author of The Southern Cross and The Eden Hunter
Not only is [Brackish] constructed well, but each poem is tight and honed. [Newberry] takes joy in language. He likes to pound-out a sound rhythm. These poems rise out of the work shed of one who has taken the time to gather the tools of his craft.
~Guillermo Cancio-Bello, in The Florida Book Review
Brackish evokes every bit of elegy for the grueling life of a working class family as does Philip Levine’s They Feed They Lion. Jeff Newberry’s Port St. Joe, Florida, stuns us, though not with a pictorial Florida beach, but with the non-tourist view of growing up in a paper mill town that nearly destroys its people and the gulf waters. These luminous and color-tinted snapshots include a father never quite present, swallowed by work and stench of pulp mill; the kids who dare not have hope, so daredevil sometimes to their ends; the fishermen weighted by nets that don’t bring in enough to survive. Yet a watchful narrator dances his way out of this tragedy, made wiser, always glancing back.
~Mary Jane Ryals, Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida and author of Cookie & Me and The Moving Waters
Brackish is an illuminating and pitch-perfect portrait of a region and a people, and Jeff Newberry’s wonderful collection also serves as a powerful demonstration of the role that the places we call home have in both shaping and cursing us. These haunting, evocative poems will stay with you for a very long time.
~Skip Horack, author of The Southern Cross and The Eden Hunter
Not only is [Brackish] constructed well, but each poem is tight and honed. [Newberry] takes joy in language. He likes to pound-out a sound rhythm. These poems rise out of the work shed of one who has taken the time to gather the tools of his craft.
~Guillermo Cancio-Bello, in The Florida Book Review
