Margo Berdeshevsky

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"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

Link: to order "Between Soul & Stone":

from Amazon.com

Review :

Powell'sBooks.Blog +"Beautiful Soon Enough":
'Tis the Season for Poetry : Powell's Books

Review: :The Rumpus: "Beautiful Soon Enough" :
http://therumpus.net/2010/01/stirring-coffee-with-a-feather/

See Reading on youtube:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b1hcFqL3U

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

from Sheep Meadow Press:

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Praise for

"Between Soul and Stone"
&

"But A Passage In Wilderness":

collections of poetry . . . from

Sheep Meadow Press: to order from Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/67v7lc

"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. ... 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

"Each page is immaculate as Margo Berdeshevsky wanders with fire from George Herbert to Cassandra to the silence of the sun before the wounded moon: “The pigeon has found a crippled / moon who will not stand again for days. Has / found water’s silence / and the winter wren trusts me.” Her ways are the fantastic, the pathos of “love’s famine,” and a mastery of emotion in her Fπrost-deep meditation in “Alone in the Old One’s House”: “a hamlet’s umber / roofs any piper could lead children up / to, any troubadour––lute for a raven.” She recalls France of her childhood and now that sustains her wandering world: “Somewhere on the Seine, a motorboat, three/ monks in gray cassocks and life-vests reach.” Between Soul & Stone is a book of measured splendors."

WILLIS BARNSTONE

"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."

published fall 2011!

"BETWEEN SOUL AND STONE"

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/1-931357-86-2.html

(From Jerome Rothenberg's poems & poetics:
http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2011/10/margo-berdeshevsky-from-between-soul.html )

.... & LINK to See Upcoming READINGS ...

Welcome

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published Sept. 13, 2011:

"Between Soul & Stone"

"Beautiful Soon Enough"

(Fiction Collective Two)

Link: to 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"

Kenyon Review Online:

"Scene Two"

The Tsunami Notebook: photographs & poems (Aceh 2005)
http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio8.html

an Agni story:
"A Friday Desdemona"

Poetry International's Weblog :"Letters from Paris" from Margo Berdeshevsky
Notes from this side of the Seine: Paris, including "Occupy Paris," + "Occupy Everywhere"

Poetry International online:"Letter from Paris in June"

Jose Saramago poems translated and Paris photographs

+"Letter from Paris in November" : (more Saramago, bit of skyline, bit of dickinson, saints, sinners, photos...moi)

A Fairy Tale Review story: "Old Wives Tale" (or what ever became of Red Riding or the rest...) http://tinyurl.com/28szmpz

FieraLingua: 2 visual poems:

http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=3261

New works in print & new awards ... 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...

A Powell's Books REVIEW of "Beautiful Soon Enough"
http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=11617

5 links to REVIEWS of "But a Passage in Wilderness"

Women's Review of Books:

http://www.redroom.com/publishedreviews/feisty-women

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:

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& Beginning with the recent past

... In the recent past ...

"Scene Two" featured in Kenyon Review online

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

Audio of 2 Pushcart nominated poems ( from"But a Passage in Wilderness")

"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
Aceh 2005 © Margo Berdeshevsky

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 -
seen @Galerie Benchaieb in Paris

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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, 2007) and "Between Soul and Stone," (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011,) Beautiful Soon Enough (University of Alabama Press/2009.) 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, 7 Pushcart Prize nominations & 2 Pushcart "Special Mention" citations, 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,) Wolf, Magazine (UK,) 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," was published in 2009. A lyrical & cross-genre novel, "Vagrant," is at the next gate, and forthcoming. She is currently living in Paris.

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