"Berdeshevsky is a mature poet and world citizen whose ever-lively sense of wonder both at the world and at language is a constant in her work.This is writing with emotional power, great beauty and immediacy, found in the here-and-now, woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life, which is an intrinsic part of the poems’ texture and reason for being."—Marilyn Hacker
"There is in Margo Berdeshevsky’s work a rare persistence of the lyric voice, used with a sense of ecstasy and grief almost religious in its evocations. Absolutely modern and fearlessly romantic by turns, the poems circle the richand threatened corners of the living planet and travel further into places marked by mythic and oneiric time."—Jerome Rothenberg
"Berdeshevsky understands the diabolical complexity of the human heart, and how eros is a form of intelligence as well as a drive."—Sven Birkerts
About the Author
Margo Berdeshevsky, poet and novelist, previously published with Sheep Meadow Press the poetry collection, But a Passage in Wilderness.
September 2011