November 2009:

"Beautiful Soon Enough"

Fiction Collective Two's
American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick
Innovative Fiction Prize
Published by the University of Alabama Press

Advance words of praise for
"Beautiful Soon Enough" :

"Margo Berdeshevsky is a mature poet and world citizen...writing with emotional power ... woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life. So MUCH verbal beauty, with the eternal quality of the tale or fable." MARILYN HACKER

"Margo Berdeshevsky understands the diabolical complexity of the human heart, and how eros is a form of intelligence as well as a drive. Writing with lyric accuracy and necessary forgiveness about the turmoils of love, she also declares the 8th Deadly Sin: the refusal of intense experience." SVEN BIRKERTS

"Margo Berdeshevsky’s "Beautiful Soon Enough" is a thrillingly cutting-edge work of photos and short short stories flowing together into an extended erotic dream that limns the inner lives of women deeply yearning for connection and authenticity. This is a splendid book by a fine poet turning into an equally fine fiction writer." ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

Link : to order "Beautiful Soon Enough"
from Amazon.com

"So MUCH verbal beauty with the eternal quality of the tale or fable."

"But A Passage in Wilderness"

Praise for "But A Passage In Wilderness": a collection of poetry . . . from Sheep Meadow Press(2007)

"There is in Margo Berdeshevsky’s work a rare persistence of the lyric voice, used with a sense of ecstasy & grief almost religious in its evocations. Absolutely modern & fearlessly romantic by turns, the poems circle the rich & threatened corners of the living planet & travel further into places marked by mythic & oneiric time. With the publication of But a Passage in Wilderness, Berdeshevsky emerges, fully empowered, as the maker of a new poetry that pushes voice & image toward creation of a world “barbaric, vast and wild” that Diderot once saw as marker of what all poetry must be."
JEROME ROTHENBERG

"Margo Berdeshevsky is a mature poet and world citizen whose ever-lively sense of wonder both at the world and at language is a constant in her work. This is writing with emotional power, great beauty and immediacy, found in the here-and-now, woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life, which is an intrinsic part of the poems' texture and reason for being."
MARILYN HACKER

"What makes But a Passage in Wilderness a unity, a big book and a small cosmos, is the depth of feeling it conveys, abundant and interactive, embodied and sensual. The poems are unfailingly fluent with emotional understanding, accurately invoked. A faithful dailyness radiates her words, even in her most daring flights. “Mother-ground,” she says, “show me roots in your bare dirty kiss.” She has taken her store of our language to heart."
MARIE PONSOT

Link to order from: Sheep Meadow Press
Link to order from : Amazon.com
Link to order from UPNE

A new poetry that pushes voice & image toward creation of a world "barbaric, vast & wild."

& LINK to See Upcoming READINGS ... 2008/ 2009

Welcome

fall 2009:
"Beautiful Soon Enough"

(Fiction Collective Two)

Link: to pre-order "Beautiful Soon Enough" from Amazon.com

and welcome to a little more



a Paris poem
http://www.trafficeast.com/archives/issue-eleven/whom-beggars-call-by-margo-berdeshevsky-painting-by-claire-marrone/

a Lilith poem:
http://wolfmagazine.co.uk/20-lilith.php

a Paris story
http://theparistimes.com/content/Blue-Dahlia

nycBigCityLit.com "Blue Dahlia"

The Tsunami Notebook: photographs (Aceh 2005)
http://www.bumisehatbali.org/slideshow.html

http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio8.html

an Agni story:
"A Friday Desdemona"

New works in print & new awards ... 2008/2009 ... FC2 winner of 2008 Ronald Sukenick/ American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize... The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Agni (Pushcart Prize "Special Mention" citation in 2009), New Letters, Fairy Tale Review, Poetry Daily, Pool, Siècle 21, Europe, Runes, NYC Big City Lit, Nimrod International, Women's Studies Quarterly, Studio ...Poetry International#12 & #14, Poetry Review (UK), The Wolf Magazine (UK) . . . and stay tuned...

4 links to REVIEWS of "But a Passage in Wilderness"
http://www.redroom.com/publishedreviews/love-saleamerican-book-review-but-a-passage-wilderness

http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=spring08/reviews/shmailo

http://tinyurl.com/6gzv85

http://www.redroom.com/publishedreviews/if-the-word-fliesruth-o%E2%80%99callaghan-margo-berdeshevskyand-adrienne-rich

Here are some sites where you may see my work:

& Beginning with the recent past

... In the recent past ...

"Amber is a Tree's Blood" featured on Poetry Daily

"Lilith as a Babe" featured in The Wolf magazine

http://www.newletters.org/issue72_3-4.asp

"CENTURY WALKER" - Essay - recipient of
"New Letters" Readers' Award
+Pushcart Prize 2008 "Special Citation"
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©Copyright 2006 Margo Berdeshevsky. on my uncovered head and prayed for Allah to ... ©Copyright 2006 Margo Berdeshevsky. I have a dearest friend who sent me ...
www.newletters.org/Berdeshevsky.pdf


recipient of the Robert H Winner Award from The Poetry Society of America
http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetytwo_poems.html


The Tsunami Notebook - photographs
Slide Show Aceh 2005 © Margo Berdeshevsky
http://www.bumisehatbali.org/slideshow.html

http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio8.html

Poems in the online journal, Studio
http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v01n02/studio2g.html

from the French poetry site, Poezibao
http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2005/06/margo_berdeshev.html

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June 2005
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But what I must explain above all is the shock provoked by this reading: the force of her words, as well as her images, as Margo Berdeshevsky is also a fine ...

http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2005/06/margo_berdeshev.html
(there *is* a place to click for an english translation!)

http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2005/10/anthologie_perm_6.html

http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2005/09/anthologie_perm.html

dans l'anthologie permanente de Poezibao, "l'histoire" :

http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2006/09/anthologie_perm_17.html


Interview with French rap artist, MC Solaar
"The Age of MC Solaar"appeared In Rattapallax #10

A lovely review of my interview with Solaar
http://www.cordite.org.au/archives/000572.html

Les Ombres de Versailles - a visual poem series -
click on Margo Berdeshevsky - under "artistes"
http://www.galeriebenchaieb.com/flash_fr.html

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& for the curious... Here Is A Bit More About Me:

Born in New York City. Graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, attended Northwestern and New York Universities, quit, for a role in her first Off Broadway play; was trained as an actress by Lee Strasberg. Performed in the world premiere of Harold Pinter's "The Basement" & "Tea Party," David Hare's "Slag," worked in the companies of Lincoln Center and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, toured the USA as Ophelia, and was nominated for a television Emmy award, for a country western drama in which she had her head in an oven, but was saved by a neighbor who prayed for her.

MARGO BERDESHEVSKY, author of "But a Passage in Wilderness," (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008) and Beautiful Soon Enough. She has been a recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America (selected by Marie Ponsot,) winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick/ American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, 5 Pushcart Prize nominations -- 2 "Special Mention" citations in 2008 & 2009 Anthologies, the Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope's Sue Saniel Elkind Award, places in the Pablo Neruda and Ann Stanford Awards (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa,) and Border's Books/ Honolulu Magazine Grand Prize for Fiction. Her works have been published in: Agni, Pleiades, New Letters, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Poetry International, Poetry Review (UK,) The Wolf, Runes, Margie, Women's Studies Quarterly, Nimrod , Chelsea, Confrontation, Traffic East, Kalliope, Pool, Southern California Anthology, The Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, Van Gogh's Ear, Rattapallax, Poetry Daily, and more. Recent exhibitions of her "visual poems" were in Paris and in Hawaii. Her "Tsunami Notebook" was made following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh. Her collection of illustrated short fictions, "Beautiful Soon Enough," will be released In fall 2009. And a poetic novel, "Vagrant," is at the gate. She is currently living in Paris.

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