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Antonio Porchia (November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an
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. Porchia was born in Conflenti,
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, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to
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. Porchia wrote a Spanish book entitled ''Voces'' ("Voices"), a book of
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s. It has since been translated into Italian and into English (by W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, 2003), French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, Porchia has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as
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,
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, Don Paterson,
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and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese
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and found many similarities with a number of
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schools of thought.


Works

* ''Voces'' (1943), English translation by W. S. Merwin: ''Voices'', Copper Canyon Press, 2003,


References


External links


Antonio Porchia's ''Voces'' Website
An essay of Prof. Vincenzo Villella 1885 births 1968 deaths Aphorists Italian male poets 20th-century Argentine poets 20th-century Italian male writers Argentine male poets Italian emigrants to Argentina Naturalized citizens of Argentina 20th-century Italian poets {{argentina-poet-stub