Alfredo de Palchi


Alfredo Giop de Palchi is an Italian poet and translator.

Life

He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy. He was a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951. From 1951 to 1956 he lived in Paris, France and in Spain. In 1952 he married Sonia Raiziss, and with her, edited Chelsea magazine from 1960 on. On October 12, 1956, he arrived in New York City. He is trustee of the Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation. He was a judge for the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards. He lives in Union Square, New York City with his wife Rita and daughter Luce. He is the publisher of the non-profit . A lecture series was named for him at the University of Hartford.

Works

Poetry

Editor

It is tempting to declare that Alfredo de Palchi is the François Villon of contemporary Italian poetry. The poet himself solicits the comparison. Not only does he borrow lines from the fifteenth-century French poet to introduce each of his own six collections, but many of his poems--their subject matter drawing on poverty and imprisonment, razor-sharp images, tense concision, syntactic boldness, forthright eroticism, and a bitter yet plucky existential...