Description:
Lambda Award-winning poet Remi Recchia's second full-length poetry collection chronicles the speaker's journey with alcoholism, gender identity, and faith. Weaving between drunkenness and grace, loss and desire, the book asks us what a man looks like and what he'll do when the lights go down.
Review Quotes:
What is the line between myth and extinction?[...]What is the line between ownership and grace? In Remi Recchia's Addiction Apocalypse, poems dance along these lines with lyric intensity and narrative grace. Funny and tender, proud and self-deprecating, this collection chronicles a life of transition, conviction, and addiction, one where every injection is a baptism, one that dwells in the everyday of Taco Bell, Mike Flanagan shows, rent debt, and 90-day chips, but also reaches for something more, shout(s) hallelujahs until my throat is sore. Recchia gives answer to the question "What happens when the apocalypse is churning in your own body?" The answer is that you survive.
--Donna Vorreyer, author of To Everything There Is
--Donna Vorreyer