LETTER FROM PARIS in March, 2019 from MARGO BERDESHEVSKY Untitled The man is quickened to memory a star risen to where none may touch but his poems and this iota of the last time I visited amid the dim corners the bend of fronds his ever caretakers the surround of palms and on a crowded …
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Before the Drought by Margo Berdeshevsky Glass Lyre Press, 2017, $17 ISBN-13: 978-1941783399 Reviewed by Tamaria del Rio In a way that mimics life, Margo Berdeshevsky’s Before the Drought never lets us settle, in the most elegantly unsettling of ways. In this collection of 44 poems, Berdeshevsky asks: Gun or grave or war or holy, …
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Letter from Paris April 2017 from Margo Berdeshevsky DARK DAWN THOUGHTS WITH POETRY FOR SUSTENANCE STILL APRIL A grackle fallen on hard sand. One eye on a hunger, singing off-key in the dark times. Sun, fallen asleep behind its soul, again. No longer the first century of world wars. It is our 21st. Mourners’ tatters …
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Letter FROM PARIS in November, 2016 FROM MARGO BERDESHEVSKY After… After Fear, the friend says flat voiced as the hollows in collected bones fear, silent as a mouth empty of its iron breath that spills back fear is not a stage of grief she says, (passions turned ash) (words turned bile) fear, no sound …
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From Margo Berdeshevsky Living in the Shadows of Winter and all the etceteras… It is long. It is cold. It is complicated. It’s Russian roulette, I nod. It can happen anywhere. It does It has. It will. It might. Shining is in short supply every where … and/but we keep at it. Are all …
LETTER FROM PARIS, autumn 2014 from Margo Berdeshevsky It’s been awhile. But my eyes are open. As always, I want to join in calling in the light. In believing in a word such as love. In the city of light. Or everywhere. I’ve been thinking about this again, all summer, and through the briefer …
Between Soul & Stone by Margo Berdeshevsky Published by The Sheep Meadow Press; Rhinebeck, NY 2011 The title for Margo Berdeshevsky’s collection, Between Soul & Stone, is in and of itself a perfect metaphor for the song that is sung between these pages. It is “twice the darkness, heard” as it croons the beauty that is …
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A Poet’s Baker’s Dozen: An Interview with Margo Berdeshevsky Born in New York City, MARGO BERDESHEVSKY often writes and walks in Paris. Her poetry collections are “Between Soul and Stone” and “But a Passage in Wilderness”(Sheep Meadow Press.) A woman of the world, her “Beautiful Soon Enough,” received Fiction Collective Two’s Innovative Fiction Award (University of Alabama Press.) Other honors …
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It is no surprise that Margo Berdeshevsky is both fantastic poet and prose writer to boot. In her latest collection, Beautiful Soon Enough, her short stories of twenty-three fearless women “sing like an ocean”— they are beautiful, dangerous, and at times, even horrific. It is Berdeshevsky’s poetic prose that compels these women to life, brings …
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LETTER FROM PARIS, autumn 2013 from Margo Berdeshevsky And These boots were made for walkin’… Is my world going to hell? Probably. Yours? Maybe. Probably. Warning: This post may offer a darkling vision. Paris, well known as city of light holds a dark kind of poetry too, always has for its wanderers, between its many …