"There is in Margo Berdeshevsky's work a rarepersistence of the lyric voice, used with a sense ofecstasy & grief almost religious in its evocations.Absolutely modern & fearlessly romantic by turns,the poems circle the rich & threatened corners ofthe living planet & travel further into placesmarked by mythic & oneiric time. With the publication of But a Passage in Wilderness, Berdeshevsky emerges, fully empowered, as the maker of a new poetry that pushes voice & image toward creation of a world "barbaric, vast and wild" that Diderot once saw as marker of what all poetry must be." -- Jerome Rothenberg.