...Review of Margo Berdeshevsky’s "Between Soul and Stone"
Date of Review:
Nov.27.2012
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Melissa Studdard
Source:
"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 them, emulate them. They are worthy ... (A) poet of supreme grace …is Margo Berdeshevsky, author of the collection Between Soul and Stone (Sheep Meadow Press/2011)… exhibits consistent, magical, transformative lyricism both of image and sound. With Berdeshevsky, one is reminded, for instance, of Company, by Samuel Beckett... Berdeshevsky circles around and around her themes like a bird of prey."
Excerpted from a new review of Between Soul & Stone : appearing in Pleiades, --Autumn/Winter issue/ 2012 (reviewer: Melissa Studdard) :
Link to Full Review:
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...