Addictive Aversions
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Addictive Aversions, by Alfredo de Palchi, is a book of poems written originally in Italian.
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Synopsis
Erotic and anti-erotic poems by a poet "not for the fainthearted" (Library Journal).
Summary
Each new book by Alfredo de Palchi is both a surprise and a challenge. In Anonymous Constellation, we encountered the destructive forces of nature, moving blindly through the fishes and beasts to all mankind. In Addictive Aversions, we encounter the life-force of sex, expressed in the individual body of the poet, but just as blind, asocial and irresistible... hence the title.
Reviews
"Alfredo de Palchi is both tough and imaginative. He is absolutely uncompromising, and his poems are painful and exalting to read. One does not come away from his stark and terrible and hilarious work untouched."
"[De Palchi's poetry] casts a revealing light on the dubious existential foundations of all mankind...these disturbing poems cumulate into a redoubtable wisdom..."
Editions
- Translated from Italian by Sonia Raiziss and others. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books. ISBN 1-879378-38-8 (paper), 138 p.