One World

Newman locates the miracles in our lives, their music, voices and intimacies. What I love about this collection is that as you read it, you will feel your face caressed and your spirit protected; a guide into the realms of deep knowing. You will not be reading—you will be awakened. This is one of the most powerful collections I have seen, a major work in which everyone is painted with sunlight, everything blessed with a revelatory quicksilver light.

— Juan Felipe Herrera

Gail Newman’s One World chronicles a woman’s life of looking for and making poetry—alert for news, deciphering the unspoken and the half-said, questioning the present day and  past...The best of these poems find blessings even among the sorrows, as in a portrait of her elderly father walking the streets of Los Angeles "with faded flowers in his fist" that he has picked for his wife from the neighbor's years--the"tired bouquet" has become a gift of great love, "carried the long way home."

— Dan Bellm

One World is a breathtaking rush of poems that explore the nature of devotion and forgiveness in daily life. They carry a lifetime of distilled beauty, heart and wisdom…Shining with awareness, these poems compel us to live.

— Susan Wooldridge