Only More So (Salmon Poetry) - Softcover

Borges Accardi, Millicent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910669288 ISBN 13: 9781910669280

Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2016

Synopsis

One of the most impressive and memorable collections I've read this year. . .Readers will find much to praise in this cohesive collection of strong narrative poems. Accardi's are honest words, and with them she displays a profound understanding of women's inner strength and needs. The clarity she achieves makes her poetry highly readable, and her intuitive sense of sound and cadence, of knowing just when to break a line for effect, of crafting concluding lines that tend to reverberate in the mind offer evidence of her mastery of craft."  Writing Without Paper Mom Egg ReviewTo read Only More So is to step into pools of lush, full waters only to be pulled under by currents. . . it is first and foremost astoundingly brave poetry because it explores subjects such as oppression, violence, rape, ethnic cleansing, and breast cancer. Women, in particular and unequally, have had to bear these tragic events, often alone and without a voice. The leap of faith comes through Accardi's articulation of these events with grace and clarity.       --Barbara Ellen Sorensen

About this title

About the Author:

Millicent Borges Accardi's awards include Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), CantoMundo, and Calif Council of the Arts fellowships. She has been a featured writer at the MA Poetry Festival, Lisbon University, Brown University, UMass Dartmouth, Valente Library in Cambridge and was in residence at The Muse (Norfolk VA), The Gathering (Keystone College), Nimrod Writing Conference, Yaddo, Jentel, and the University of Texas, Austin (Spanish/Portuguese PhD program). She is the organizer of the popular Kale Soup for the Soul literary series (that performs poetry and stories about family, food and Portuguese culture).

Review:

"Readers familiar with Accardi's work know that the almost moonstruck effect of sexuality wanted or not on the speakers who populate her poems is an ongoing theme."--Michael Northern, WordGathering

"These are the poems of a person fully engaged in the 21st Century and all of its endless dramas, sometimes political in nature, sometimes personal, but always maintaining a sense of true ancestral history. Surprisingly, some of Ms. Borges Accardi s power as a poet comes when these two approaches meet head on." --Sam Pereira, Poetry International

"Accardi is the rebel-muse. The wise traveler. The Aunt who always brought you good books along with sweets from a faraway place. The one with the best stories, who seems to be listening carefully even as she s sharing with you what she s learned, what she s still struggling to understand about the wide, marvelous and confounding world." --Lisa Hartz, Executive Director, Seven Cities Writers Project

"Outstanding poems"--The Poetry Kit --(UK) Five ***** Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910669288
• ISBN 13: 9781910669280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80