Addictive Aversions

Addictive Aversions, by Alfredo de Palchi, is a book of erotic and anti-erotic poems written originally in Italian 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.^[1]

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...^[2]

Editions

• Addictive Aversions, translated from Italian by Sonia Raiziss and others. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books, (1999). ISBN 1-879378-38-8 (paper), 138 p.

References

1. Daniela Gioseffi. "Addictive Aversions (Le Viziose Avversioni)". The Cortland Review.
2. "Addictive Aversions / Le viziose avversioni.(Review)". World Literature Today. HighBeam Research. September 22, 1999.