Alessandro De Francesco
Unstable Orbits
Image schemes and poems
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edition taberna kritika, März 2025, ISBN: 978-3-03947-014-3
20,00 Eur / 20,00 CHF, 118 S. (farb.) – 19 x 19 cm, Broschur
 
Orbits are everywhere: in the universe, behind your eyes. Moons orbit around planets, planets orbit around stars, stars orbit around black holes at the centre of their galaxies, galaxies orbit around larger clusters of gravity… Every orbit implies some influence among bodies that are close enough to exert it and to feel it, but because of that same influence bodies move and change their position all the time. In Unstable Orbits we find interactions between two processes that are themselves unstable and fragile: impossible and inexistent schemes inspired by theoretical physics and complex systems, and a few lines of poetry.
 
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ALESSANDRO DE FRANCESCO is a poet, artist, and essayist writing in Italian, English, and French. His books in English include: Remote Vision: Poetry 1999–2015 (punctum books, 2016), ((( (punctum, 2021), And agglomerations, of trees or (Mousse Publishing, 2022), Mental Dough. Dialogue on Poetry and Artistic Practice, with Marco Mazzi (Gli Ori, 2022), and Continuum 2. Writings 2015-2022 (punctum, 2024). More: www.alessandrodefrancesco.net
 

„So how remarkable to see the appropriation of these shapes and combinations into a work of lyric poetry in Alessandro De Francesco’s fully engaging book, Unstable Orbits, where every page is a thought experiment in the ability of schematic form to embody rich poetic statements. (…) De Francesco’s system is the human world, emotional, personal, projected and introspected at the same time. The individual works are deceptively minimal, their allusive provocations far more profound than the schematic presentations at first suggest. These are diagrammatic poetics, graphic and linguistic equations that inscribe exceptionally complex situations with an elegant efficiency of means. Some are amusingly clever. Others are poignantly moving.“ Johanna Drucker, 13.05.2025