Margo Berdeshevsky's Reviews
Reviews of Margo’s Work
May.16.2013
Published by Poetry International/ Issue 18/19/ 2012
Beautiful Soon Enough
"The stories in this prize-winning collection are all about sex. They’re tactile, explosive, hilarious, rueful, and knowing. They’re also about much...
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Dec.21.2012
Published by PowellsBooks.Blog http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-favorite-poetry-books-of-the-past-year
"One of my all-time favorite poets...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...
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Nov.27.2012
Published by "Pleiades" / A Journal of New Writing/Autumn 2012 http://www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/
"Reader... important, beautiful contemporary collections that, in unique ways, deal with themes that should concern us all. Buy them, read them, re-read them, teach them, gift...
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Jun.25.2012
Published by Poetry International (online) http://pionline.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/beauty-and-its-blade-a-revie
"Brevity... lushness and lyricism... This is a writer who understands the power of language."
"...artfully sculpted fictions conveyed with astonishing phrasing....Though the...
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May.01.2012
Published by http://www.amazon.com/review/R3KDW1KDT03ZRL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
"I loved this book. Margo Berdeshevsky's passionate and honest engagement with self and world make her work stunning, wide-ranging and compassionate--these poems will awaken...
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Published by "Pleiades" 30.2 A Journal of New Writing
"...'Beautiful Soon Enough' is one of those books you'd do well to read twice...the first time, just sit back and let the language and images (these stories are accompanied by...
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Jan.27.2010
Published by The Rumpus: Books: http://therumpus.net/2010/01/stirring-coffee-with-a-feather/
"Margo Berdeshevsky’s work straddles the line between fiction and poetry. Her characters grieve, dream, punish themselves, and try to find harmony between who they are and who...
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Jan.15.2010
Published by Women's Review of Books
"... All three of the writers treated here are women who have lived the writing life and lived it widely, with large, questioning, furious hearts. Like millions of women writers...
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Dec.18.2009
Published by PowellsBooks.Blog
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Published by Poetry Review / Volume 98:3 /Autumn 2008
"...It is this ability to perceive hope in despair, joy in grief - not in the abstract but in daily lives - which infuses these poems with a rare beauty. The recurring images -...
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Published by The American Book Review:Volume 29, Number 5 http://americanbookreview.org/currentIssue.asp
From Dimitrios Kalantzis reviews Margo Berdeshevsky’s "But a Passage in Wilderness": ...the most arresting poem in the collection, "Best Love and Goodbye," written in March 2003...
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Jun.09.2008
Published by http://tinyurl.com/6gzv85
But a Passage in Wilderness by Margo Berdeshevsky captured the Dresser's attention in the same way as Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century did. The...
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Published by nycBigCityLit_Reviews
Margo Berdeshevsky achieves an unusual trinity in her first book of poems, But a Passage in Wilderness. The collection is wonderfully experimental, exceptionally lyrical, and...
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Apr.23.2008
Published by Amazon.com
Witnessing, April 23, 2008
By Akilah Oliver (New York, NY)
As I read these gorgeously written poems, I am observing these tough wildernesses or I am in ritual with the text, or...
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May.19.2008
Published by Amazon.com
These are bardic poems, but not at all presumptuous or abstract. Berdeshevsky's earned them by her life fully lived, her compassion, and the music that makes them poetry. They're...
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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 (author of Reading Life: Books for the Ages)
About Margo
Born in New York City, she has traveled the world. Of "Beautiful Soon Enough," Robert Olen Butler has written: "Margo Berdeshevsky’s Beautiful Soon Enough is a thrillingly cutting-edge work of photos and short short stories flowing together into an extended...