Injuring Eternity [Paperback]

Millicent Borges Accardi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2010

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

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Millicent has an amazingly intimate way of writing that makes you feel as though you are going through the pages of her life alongside her.  
Gabe Sachs, Writer/Producer 90210
--Book Blurb

Many will find something of value just by randomly opening pages and selecting something new: births, deaths, lovers, children, snooping, guns, the down side of Las Vegas, soap operas and birthdays.
--The Compulsive Reader by Sheri Harper

The work addresses family, love, politics, art, and religion. It tackles current events, popular culture, and spares a few asides for Miles Davis. It's an ambitious collection that takes a lot of risks. --Chamber Four

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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).

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Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: World Nouveau (December 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982886543
• ISBN-13: 978-0982886540
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,585,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of three books: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau), Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook), and Only More So (forthcoming Salmon Press, Ireland).

She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, CantoMundo, and Formby at the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech.

Follow her on Twitter @TopangaHippie
Wikipedia and her own web page http://www.MillicentBorgesAccardi.com

Past artist residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar, Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov and Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal. Recently she has been a visiting poet at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA and "The Gathering" at Keystone College in PA.

Accardi'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. Her interviews, theater and book reviews can be found in print and online.

She received degrees in English, literature and writing from USC and CSULB and works as a freelance writer.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Profound writing, stunning imagry September 30, 2011

By Chris Adams

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Millicent Acardi's book and work stretches the imagination and challenges the soul. A writer of profound power of language and yet universal theme. Some of her poems hit like sledgehammers, never holding back on the pain, the struggle and the aching beauty that is loss, grief and struggle. Others take on the voices and the minds of individuals that we all know, or are, and guide us through truths that perhaps we could not address or are afraid to. In the end, she creates poetry that teaches, inspires, that are gifts without being morose or overly self-aware. They are like reading the words that our feelings speak but in a voice we don't have ourselves. I am glad she lets me hear that voice.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Broken and Beautiful September 25, 2011

By Caffeinated Babe

Format:Paperback

Accardi manages to capture all kinds of fragile moments framed in simple observations of this broken, but beautiful life. You cannot help but be affected by her poems--they capture gut-wrenching moments of truth garnered from voices young and old, male and female, kind and not-kind. This is a lovely, compassionate accounting of the moments of cruelty and kindness which connect us all in this life.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom and Grace September 24, 2011

By A reader

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In Injuring Eternity, Millicent Borges Accardi brings forth the point that it is the simplier moments in life that many of us fail to notice. Her beautifully written book becomes a celebration of these often overlooked personal times, be they "pouring rusty nails/Into oily glass jars in the cellar" or "Waking up/To noises that must be squelched." Accardi talently presents us with a sincere tribute to regular life, and does it with a special and unique voice. The writing is both sensual and seductive, and the imagry lasts long after we close the book, our thoughts on reading it again and again.