Addictive Aversions, by Alfredo de Palchi

Alfredo de Palchi

Alfredo Giop de Palchi is an Italian poet, and translator.-Life:He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy.He has been a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951....

, is a book of erotic and anti-erotic poems written originally in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 under the title Le Viziose Avversioni.

Summary

The book is a follow-up to Anonymous Constellation, about the destructive forces of nature. Addictive Aversions focuses instead on the life-force of sex -- just as blind, asocial and irresistible as nature.

Reviews

Alfredo de Palchi's Addictive Aversions is a series of erotic poems divided into three sections, Moments, Movements and Mutations, but it is more than merely erotic love which concerns the poet. As in the poet's earlier works, the book is one long stream-of-consciousness in the style of a French symbolist poem—with plenty of white spaces between the individual verses which wash through the poet's mind with stark imagery and contemplative clarity.

In the U.S.-Italian cultural milieu, Alfredo de Palchi is well known since the 1960s as a refined and genial gentleman-poet and more recently as an administrator of the Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation, which for many years has sponsored poetry and poets in a truly international environment. De Palchi's poetry could not be ignored in such gatherings, translated as it has been by the best available interpreters of the time...

Editions

• Addictive Aversions, translated from Italian by Sonia Raiziss
  Sonia Raiziss
  Sonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.-Life:A native of Germany, Ms. Raiziss grew up in Philadelphia. Her father, Dr. George W. Raiziss, was a professor, at University of Pennsylvania. Her first work was published while she was in high school...
  
   and others. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books
  Xenos Books
  Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.- Poetry :...
  
  , (1999). ISBN 1-879378-38-8 (paper), 138 p.