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"Beautiful Soon Enough"

Link: to order Beautiful Soon Enough from Amazon.com




and welcome to a little more




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3 hybrid works featured on Bracken magazine's courageous pages, "Over Tea and Tears for Ukraine" :
https://www.brackenmagazine.com/over-tea-and-tears-collection/berdeshevsky-three-pieces  
 
2 new hybrid works  in Chant de la Sirene the journal: issue 3: War, Peace & Poetics.  
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"Dusk" by Margo Berdeshevsky (Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets)



"A Poet's Baker's Dozen"-Interview with Margo Berdeshevsky @ Poetry International 



"Scene Two" Margo Berdeshevsky@Kenyon Review Weekend Reads:
 http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2010-spring/selections/scene-two/

"Whose Sky, Between" + "Rape of America. So It Appears" Margo Berdeshevsky@ PLUME 
  http://plumepoetry.com/2017/03/two-poems-81/



Link to Archive of  "LETTERS FROM PARIS" @ Poetry International online:
https://poetryinternationalonline.com/category/letters/letters-from-paris/

Read "Pulse" in "Plume" online:
http://plumepoetry.com/2016/03/pulse-2/

Read  May 2017 Essay in "Plume" :
AGAIN, A HOLE IN THE HEART OF HUMANITY


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http://plumepoetry.com/2016/05/three-paris-poems/ 

Kenyon Review Online:

"Scene Two"

Berdeshevsky's
"Postcards To The Body Politic" @ Black Earth Institute 

Berdeshevsky's interview with Hip Hop star:  
"The Age of MC Solaar" + "The Age of MC Solaar" 

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The Tsunami Notebook: VIMEO: photographs from Aceh after December 26, 2005:  Beauty and Heartbreak ~ by Margo Berdeshevsky   ©2005, ©2014  Margo Berdeshevsky  
                          https://vimeo.com/115521601 

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an Agni story:
"A Friday Desdemona"


Poetry International's Weblog : Archive of "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"



                                                                     
       from "Between Soul & Stone," on page 56:...known to beggars, falcons...
       A book of poems, born of morning & night. Of "The silence of the sun before the wounded moon."  Of gods & prayers & sex & solitudes... 

                                                                      


Works in print & some awards ... FC2 winner 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...

Here are LINKS TO MORE REVIEWS


@ Necessary Fiction for "Between Soul and Stonehttp://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/BeautifulSoonEnough


On Amazon: for "Between Soul and Stone" : http://tinyurl.com/6hyrdwn


from Pleiades' Book Review of Between Soul and Stone: http://tinyurl.com/cyolzxh 

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



Powell's Books review of Between Soul and Stone: http://tinyurl.com/o585t49




Her latest book, Between Soul and Stone, is incredible. This may sound trite, but I can't help but identify Berdeshevsky's work as being like a gossamer web: intensely beautiful, painstakingly crafted into textually dense strands of poetic light.—Chris Faatz/Powells Books Blog


2 Poetry International reviews of Beautiful Soon Enough online
http://tinyurl.com/otd8334


                                                                                                        http://tinyurl.com/bphb7qt






…her short stories of twenty-three fearless women “sing like an ocean”— they are beautiful, dangerous, and at times, even horrific—Poetry International

                                     Peopled with outsiders, exiles, wild cards,these voices arrive framed by desire



open our palms, open our hands
©margo berdeshevsky


from Big City Lit:
http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=spring08/reviews/shmailohttp://tinyurl.com/6gzv85


_Autumn Infra-Lumiere_
©Margo Berdeshevsky
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4/10/2012:
Margo Berdeshevsky's "Passage Passage Passage 2" featured on Lex-icon

... In the recent past ...

"Scene Two" featured in Kenyon Review online

"Blackouts" + "Again the Cradle" @ Jerome Rothenberg's Poems and Poetics


"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"
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
©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

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Recipient of the Robert H Winner Award from The Poetry Society of America
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2002/award_5/

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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 (there *is* a place to click for an english translation!)
http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2005/06/margo_berdeshev.html    ...."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/2005/10/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

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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 High School of Performing Arts, attended Northwestern and New York Universities, quit, for a role in her first Off Broadway play;  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, 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 "Between Soul and Stone," (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011,) + "But a Passage in Wilderness," (Sheep Meadow Press, 2007) and Beautiful Soon Enough (FC2/ University of Alabama Press/2009.) 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, for her "Beautiful Soon Enough."  8 Pushcart Prize nominations, 2 Pushcart "Special Mention" citations, Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope's Sue Saniel Elkind Awd., places in Pablo Neruda + Ann Stanford Awards (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa.) Works have been published in: Academy of American Poets Poem-A-DayPoetry International, Kenyon Review, Agni, Pleiades, New Letters, The Southern Review,  Tupelo Quarterly, The Collagist, 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 many more. Recent exhibitions of "visual poems"   in Paris, Hawaii, NYC. Her "Tsunami Notebook" was created following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh. A lyrical and multi-genre novel, "Vagrant," is forthcoming. She is a finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series. She is currently writing in Paris.



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Author of : *Sundress Publications: " KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT (a hybrid book in half-notes)" _____ and ______ *Forthcoming from Salmon Poetry: "IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT"______ _____ Author as well of *BEFORE THE DROUGHT* (Glass Lyre Press) Finalist: THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES ______ * BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH * Winner of Fiction Collective Two's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize: a "thrillingly cutting-edge"* book of sensual short short stories with photographs by the author." (*Robert Olen Butler) _____ **************** & **************** ____ *BETWEEN SOUL and STONE* (Sheep Meadow Press) _______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 )

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