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Kenyon Review Online features Margo Berdeshevsky's "Square Black Key"

Feb.29.2012
Kenyon Review Online features Margo Berdeshevsky's "Square Black Key"

KRO features Margo Berdeshevsky's "Square Black Key" 

http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/winter-2012-2/selections/squa

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Margo's Latest Blogs

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Oct.21.2010 - 5:21 pm
Margo BERDESHEVSKY--NEWS--5/16/2013
**Published by  Sheep Meadow Press : "Between Soul & Stone" * To order from Amazon usa:http://tinyurl.com/3duvqmg  *** from Sheep Meadow Press: Between Soul...
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Jan.31.2010 - 9:28 pm
Poet & an Innovative Fiction Writer: 5/16/2013
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" 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...
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May.05.2009 - 11:57 pm
MARGO BERDESHEVSKY--older good NEWS--3/28/2011
"Beautiful Soon Enough"
FC2 AWARD: Margo Berdeshevsky's illustrated short stories, "BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH" won American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize --("thrillingly...
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Dec.14.2008 - 12:08 am
BERDESHEVSKY:update 11/27/12: http://margoberdeshevsky.blogspot.com/
http://margoberdeshevsky.blogspot.com     + see  POSTCARDS TO THE BODY POLITIC :   http://blackearthinstitute.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/hath-...
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Comments from Margo

Aug.25.2012 - 11:57 pm
In response to: Poet & an Innovative Fiction Writer: 5/16/2013
Kindle Version of "BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH" on Amazon
KINDLE version of “BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH” …   available on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/cbp5nzb  ...
Aug.25.2012 - 11:48 pm
In response to: Margo BERDESHEVSKY--NEWS--5/16/2013
& because I honor this Borges line...
...The night: "And to think it would not exist/ if not for those tenuous instruments, the eyes."— [Jorge Luis Borges]...
Aug.25.2012 - 11:47 pm
In response to: Margo BERDESHEVSKY--NEWS--5/16/2013
see Kenyon Review Online 2/29/12
Do see & hear Margo Berdeshevsky's "Square Black Key"  (+ audio link to her reading of it) in the newest...
Apr.23.2012 - 1:47 am
In response to: Margo Berdeshevsky. "Beautiful Soon Enough. FC2, 2009
"Beautiful Soon Enough" available as "ebook" here as well
"Beautiful Soon Enough" available as ebook here as well:  http://www.ebooks.com/835703/beautiful-soon-enough/...
Apr.10.2012 - 9:43 pm
In response to: Margo BERDESHEVSKY--NEWS--5/16/2013
see latest on cross-genre text & image:
In an ongoing dialogue between artists of cross-genre...word & image marrying: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/...

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Poem: LISTEN TO: http://herkind.org/articles/on-my-mind/postcards-to-the-body-politic-by-margo-berdeshevsky
Poem: "Dusk" (Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets)
Article: LETTER FROM PARIS, Winter 2013

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"Beautiful Soon Enough"
May.16.2013
"Beautiful Soon Enough"
Published by Poetry International/ Issue 18/19/ 2012
Beautiful Soon Enough  "The stories in this prize-winning collection are all about sex. They’re tactile, explosive, hilarious, rueful, and knowing. They’re also about much...
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Audio & Video

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Video: Berdeshevsky Reading from "Between Soul & Stone"
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Video: Reading from "Beautiful Soon Enough"
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Image Gallery: Firebird Incantation
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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...
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