Gail Newman’s The Tilted Earth is a luminous, deeply human collection that traces a life shaped by memory, migration, motherhood, and the long echo of inherited trauma. With a voice both tender and unflinching, Newman moves from childhood scenes to the intimate rituals of family, to the stark realities of war and displacement, crafting poems that feel at once personal and universal. This book invites readers into a world where love persists, grief transforms, and history lives in the body; a world rendered with the quiet power of witness.

“Memory, I haul it behind me,
a red wagon.”