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Margo Berdeshevsky

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MARGO BERDESHEVSKY, born in New York City, often lives and writes in Paris. Her brand new book is IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT from SALMON POETRY in Ireland!! Her recent book was KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT(a hybrid book in half-notes) from Sundress Publications. Her other collections include "Before the Drought," from Glass Lyre Press, a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Berdeshevsky is author as well of "Between Soul & Stone" and "But a Passage in Wilderness" (Sheep Meadow Press). Her book of illustrated stories, "Beautiful Soon Enough," received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award for FC2 (University of Alabama Press). She is also the recipient of the grand prize for the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred A ...more

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	Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation by Rachel Neve-Midbar (Editor), Jennifer Saunders (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Russel Agadon (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Ghosts, But Spirits III: art from the women's & lgbtqia+ communities by Emily Perkovich (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alex Carrigan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Andrew Michael Joseph (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Between Soul & Stone 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Julie Marie Wade (Contributor), Jack D. Zipes (Contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	But a Passage in Wilderness 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Review, The Web Issue by Mihaela Buna (Contributor), Jennifer Juneau (Contributor), Sara Levine (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Yes, an astonishing novel. Magical and yes, surreal, and gorgeous and terrifying and and and more. I spent the night dreaming of its wee birds piercing my consciousness and the author's. Brava! Between scenes of Paris that I know well, and scenes of ...more
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“from "KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT" : "...I once admitted to an older lover, as we lay naked and pleasured, that I was afraid to catch his age. Fortunately, he was compassionate. I asked if he minded my question. ...”
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“from "Here is My Body": "Invisible, on our lake, our dreamscape, the old blue heron lands. Beak of my hunger. Beak of her hunger. Beak of her mothering. Mother-me, I say. I’m her body of surrender, waiting. I’m her body of hunger, waiting. Her body of danger, waiting under the five million star-fall night. Mother, I cry, you promised kinder dreams. You promised sleep. Be kind, you said, before you surrendered. Before
you climbed the star-fall...”
― Margo Berdeshevsky, Before the Drought

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“from "KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT": "Call these notes. Half notes. Grace notes. I can only speak with small, sharp breaths that hurt my lungs, small bursts of paragraphs and lines. Half notes for knowing. Call them the voices that are in me. In these ragged months of global ache, death is one of the many inevitable(s), closer than my heartbeat ...”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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My Favorite Poetry Books of the Past Year and a Half
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If you have a poetry lover in your family or circle of friends — or if you're a fan yourself — many, many excellent poetry books have been published over the past 18 months or so. Here are a few standouts.

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