Addictive Aversions

by Alfredo De Palchi

Poetry. 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. 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. James Dickey [De Palchi's poetry] casts a revealing light on the dubious existential foundations of all mankind...these disturbing poems cumulate into a redoubtable wisdom -- The Antioch Review. Translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss and others.

138 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Greg Bem · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic selection of some of de Palchi's older, more sexual and hyper works. I found them sprawling but, as the title suggests, filled with the vigor of aversion . . . to avert from what is the core of intimacy, of connectivity, of the brutal act of sexual violence (and all that cascades off it). Totally enjoyable, and very much a linguistic heaven, Addictive Aversions is precisely what we need for our own actions of the same name.