Description
Love Poems for Drunken Women
Book Summary
A collection of visceral and uncompromising poetry that challenges the limits of language and emotion. Alberto Calligaris offers an incendiary, direct, and carnal work, where tenderness and irony coexist with cruelty and unbridled excess. This book invites the reader to submerge themselves in a torrent of brutal and authentic sensations, exploring a rarely frequented poetic territory where the unspeakable finds its most vibrant and ruthless voice.
What is it about?
This work unfolds an open and runaway poetry that burns in the reader's hands. Through a virulent and ruthlessly direct style, Alberto Calligaris builds a universe where the carnal and the emotional intertwine without filters. The author reveals himself to be tender, ironic, generous, and cruel, while simultaneously wavering and festive, narrating a poetic brotherhood that is difficult to describe but which he masters with expertise. The poems explore love, desire, and excess from a raw and unadorned perspective, revealing the republic of the unspeakable that inhabits contemporary poetry.
Main themes
- Love in its most extreme and contradictory facets
- Carnality and desire as primary poetic forces
- Irony and cruelty as tools for emotional exploration
- Excess and drunkenness as states of poetic consciousness
- Literary brotherhood and the tradition of the unspeakable in poetry
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at readers of contemporary poetry who seek intense and uncompromising literary experiences. It is ideal for those who appreciate a direct, visceral, and provocative style, far removed from conventional poetic forms. It will also be attractive to those interested in exploring the limits of language and emotion, as well as followers of contemporary Italian poetry and authors who challenge established norms.
What this book offers
- A unique poetic experience that combines emotional rawness with narrative mastery
- An original perspective on love and desire from an uninhibited and authentic approach
- The discovery of a virulent and carnal literary style that breaks with the conventional
- An immersion into the poetry of Alberto Calligaris, an author who knows how to narrate the unspeakable
- A work that invites reflection on the limits of poetic and emotional expression
Technical data sheet
- Author: Calligaris, Alberto
- Publisher: Huerga y Fierro Editores
- Language: Italian
- Subject: Poetry, plays, theatrical texts
- Collection: Fenice Poesía
- Publication date: April 2012
- Number of pages: 164
- Weight: 223 g
Editorial review
A brave and transgressive poetic proposal that will leave no one indifferent. Alberto Calligaris demonstrates an exceptional command of language to convey extreme and contradictory emotions. For its target audience—readers seeking authentic, unfiltered poetry with a powerful emotional charge—this work represents an opportunity to explore an uncommon literary territory, where beauty emerges from the rawest and most direct aspects of human experience.