PRAISE for "Kneel Said The Night"
Composed of lyric essays, line broken poems, revamped fairy tales, erotic myths, and histories clothed in see-through shifts, wearing Eau Sauvage men’s cologne, Kneel Said the Night: a hybrid book in half notes, is a lush, authoritative masterwork. This Red Riding Hood gathers flowers and details in her basket, and generates revivified archetypes—"menstrual-colored canary,” “full paunch moon”—that can only emerge from an imagination fed by solitude and desire (and Paris). “I’m the woman who asks how close is death, how near is God,” Berdeshevsky writes, and in this intimate, audacious collection, the answer is very close, and very, very near.
–Diane Seuss/author of frank:sonnets/ Pulitzer Prize recipientMargo Berdeshevsky’s ravishing originality and enchanting voice, which I have long admired, are on stunning display in her latest book. Kneel Said the Night is an unmitigated joy. —Robert Olen Butler/ Pulitzer Prize recipient
Here is Margo reading one excerpt from "Kneel Said the Night"
BEFORE THE DROUGHT
her recent poetry collection
Praise for "BEFORE THE DROUGHT"
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!!!Link to ORDER
"BEFORE the DROUGHT from Glass Lyre Press !!!
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Listen here to an AUDIO PODCAST :
Reading from "Before the Drought" + Interview!
Poet's Cafe for KPFK in Los Angeles:
https://www.loispjones.com/2018/07/17/margo-berdeshevsky/
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LETTER FROM PARIS in March, 2019 from MARGO BERDESHEVSKY
https://poetryinternationalonline.com/letter-from-paris-in-march-2019-from-margo-berdeshevsky/
(a tribute to W.S. Merwin)
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Review in the Brooklyn Rail :
http://brooklynrail.org/2017/09/books/Margo-Berdeshevskys-Before-the-Drought
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and here:
a link to Margo's website:
http://margoberdeshevsky.com
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Still here and available:
American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick
Innovative Fiction Prize Published by the University of Alabama Press
2 great Reviews:
http://tinyurl.com/otd8334
http://tinyurl.com/bphb7qt
+ Still here ... + still available:
http://pionline.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/review-of-between-soul-stone-by-margo-berdeshevsky/
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Praise for
"Beautiful Soon Enough" :
"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
from Amazon.com
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Margo Berdeshevsky reading from "Before the Drought"
https://shakespeareandcompany.com/podcast?playlist=504
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See Interview and reading with
Margo Berdeshevsky
super Review of "Beautiful Soon Enough" @ Necessary Fiction:
http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/BeautifulSoonEnough
'Tis the Season for Poetry : Powell's Books
http://therumpus.net/2010/01/stirring-coffee-with-a-feather/
Review : Poetry International:"Beautiful Soon Enough" :
http://pionline.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/beauty-and-its-blade-a-review-of-margo-berdeshevskys-beautiful-soon-enough/
+ LETTERS:
(fyi, I'm 2nd up...1/3 way through) start at 20 min 20 seconds :we’re all jammin”…xxxm
http://tinyurl.com/d2wl9t4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b1hcFqL3U
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PLUME: "PULSE"
http://plumepoetry.com/2016/03/pulse-2/
PLUME: "FOLDED WING"
http://plumepoetry.com/2016/05/three-paris-poems/
PLUME:2 Poems: "Whose Sky, Between"
"Rape of America. So it appears.
+ see my Letter From Paris/ winter 2015:
@ Poetry International: http://tinyurl.com/ltckz2g
+ Tupelo Quarterly: Berdeshevsky+"Stilled Summer" @ Tupelo Quarterly
+ About Place Journal: SURVIVAL
https://tinyurl.com/y5tr6b3x
"So MUCH verbal beauty with the eternal quality of the tale or fable."