Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia (November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentinian poet. He was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. 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, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Don Paterson, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.

Works[]

• Voces (1943), English translation by W. S. Merwin: Voices, Copper Canyon Press, 2003, ISBN 1-55659-189-6

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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Antonio Porchia

• Antonio Porchia's Voces Website
• The Extraordinary Story of Antonio Porchia An essay of Prof. Vincenzo Villella

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