Margo Berdeshevsky's Books
Sep.13.2011
A breathtaking new volume from a poet who wrestles with the diabolical complexity of the human heart (publisher's note)
Nov.01.2009
Margo Berdeshevsky's Beautiful Soon Enough is a collection of hypnotic stories that capture the lives--worldly, sexual, obsessive--of twenty-three arresting women.
These are snapshots and collages: stories of women on the outside, looking in; of women content to end their affairs; of young women learning the power of seduction; and of older women reminiscing about past loves. They...
Mar.22.2008
Audio of 6 poems archived @ From the Fishouse (c)
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/margo_berdeshevsky/index.shtml
Dec.31.2007
"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...
Recent pub.:
2008 winter - Agni – "A Friday Desdemona" (short story) online exclusive
2007&2009- Agni – Pas de Deux, à Trois (short story) & Troika for Lovers
2007 "But a Passage in Wilderness" (poetry book)--Sheep Meadow Press
2008-From the Fishouse- audio archive: http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/margo_berdeshevsky/
(including Whom Beggars...
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...