This flyer is to announce to friends and acquaintances that my poetry collection from Finishing Line Press, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, is coming out this winter—an appropriate time to turn inward and consider the creative arts and reflect on what is truly important to you, what inspires you, perhaps a time to appreciate life through my poems about jazz and Eastern Europe and women everywhere who are on shaky bridges of their own.
“Start reading Woman on a Shaky Bridge and before the hour is up, you’re likely to read it through to the end. You will, however, remember it for the rest of your life. Between these covers, Millicent Borges Accardi has gathered sixteen poems that blaze with passion, outrage, wisdom, wit, grief, and love that reckons with the grimmest possible truth” —David Huddle, award-wining writer of The Story of a Million Years.
Excerpt
For John, For Coltrane
This is romance
of the reed,
brutal, and all
the while background
ballads play.
They say he looked ten
years older than the music;
they say the music used
his body more
than love. The music
made changes, war--made trying
harder than a man ought to into just
silence, made it seem just
for the silence of it all.
He wanted to grab
the tail of the night;
he wanted to take it
home and wrap its arms
around his sound until it screamed.
But the night,
the night was timid,
timid as the softest notes
he knew how to play.
And the night came in long,
longer than he ever wanted it to.
Thank you!
Millicent Borges Accardi
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NOTES:
Millicent’s writing awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Barbara Deming, and the California Arts Council, as well as artist residencies at Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain and, this past September, Milkwood in the Czech Republic.
Recent publications include New Letters, Tampa Review, Nimrod and Wallace Stevens Journal, but over 50 literary publications as well as a number of anthologies have featured her work, most notably, Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press).
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