Beauty and Its Blade: A Review of Margo Berdeshevsky’s Beautiful Soon Enough
Date of Review:
Jun.25.2012
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Victoria Featherstone (for Poetry International)
Source:
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 content, text and subtext vary greatly, the throughline of eros is rooted in each story. "
"...Equally poetic are Berdeshevsky’s alluring black and white photographs that act as accompaniments, indeed as an interstices, to the short fictions..."
Do see full review here, at Poetry International online
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...




