Injuring Eternity - Softcover

Accardi, Millicent Borges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982886543 ISBN 13: 9780982886540

Publisher: World Nouveau / Mischievous Muse Press, 2010

Synopsis

Injuring Eternity is a bold volume of poetry written by renowned National Endowments for the Arts poet Millicent Borges Accardi.

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About the Author

Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle).

Millicent's poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Tampa Review, New Letters and Wallace Stevens Journal as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press) anthologies. Residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar and Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov.

Forthcoming in spring 2012 is a third collection of poetry: Only More So (Salmon Press, Ireland).

Millicent received degrees in English and writing from CSULB, holds a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and works as a freelance writer (theater reviews, grant writing and instructional design).

From the Back Cover

It's not true what people say / About anything," writes Millicent Borges Accardi, while giving us a panoply of family narratives, persona poems, and reflections on history and the current moment. Her speakers navigate between casual lies and the unknowns youth is especially privy to, building, poem by poem, a body of hard-won truths.
--Janet Holmes, The Physicist at the Mall

If I were forced to choose what I like best in this immensely rich, intelligent book, I would choose the family poems. I am particularly moved by the rendering of the mother daughter relationship in all its ambiguities--the eternal desire to hold on and to let go. Fortunately, I don't have to choose and neither do you. Embrace, enjoy, every page of this wonderful book.
---Donna Hilbert, Traveler in Paradise: New and Selected Poems

Edition details

• Publisher: World Nouveau / Mischievous Muse Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982886543
• ISBN 13: 9780982886540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108