Suffused with a bitter irony, Richard-Yves Sitoski’s A Current Through the Flesh is a powerful, and powerfully honest, examination of family. A key aspect for Sitoski is captured in the poem “Above All Else”: “a family is what happens to an infant, instantly, / no way to prepare,…” As this suggests, for the author, family came with considerable pain, both psychological and physical. During his interrogation of this experience there are lines…
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