Background
Alfredo de Palchi was born on December 13, 1926, in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He is the son of Carlo Giop and Ines de Palchi.
75005 Paris, France
Sorbonne University
28 Rue Serpente, 75006 Paris, France
University of Paris
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Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss. THE SCORPIAN'S DARK DANCE is a collection of powerful short poems by the distinguished New York author and publisher, written when he was a young prisoner of the Fascists at the end of World War II. Includes a short introduction by the translator. "His harsh, unrelenting stance and his beautiful and disquieting imagery belong to one who draws in the dark while longing for the light."—World Literature Today "De Palchi masterfully creates and expands singularly intense metaphors that sometimes convey a stony, Dantesque harshness or else a transcendent Montalean complexity. There are glimpses of redemption and self-insight, but they occur only intermittently and are clearly hard-won."—Small Press.
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1993
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Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss. "ANONYMOUS CONSTELLATION follows an evolutionary pattern: it starts with iconic reflections on primordial cosmic life, proceeds to meditations on human history and ends with statements about the poet himself. Evolution is thus both a theme and a structural element of the collection." But with characteristic originality, De Palchi defies the idea of evolutionary progress, asserting instead that "violence levels all creatures and brings them back to their primeval state." The cycle of poems thus presents a view of history turned upside down: history does not instruct, does not help, but only repeats the great struggle, pitting human beings against other human beings, human beings against animals, animals against other animals. These are poems that stun and compel reflection."—Alessandro Vettori, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature Rutgers University.
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1997
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the Italian, and with a preface by John Taylor. Alfredo de Palchi, NIHIL. A profound book of poetry and prose in which the author imaginatively floats down the river of his youth, the Adige, describing scenes of beauty and horror, and commenting upon them. Each section of NIHIL leads to more remote reaches of human experience and understanding. "Alfredo, dearest Lion! NIHIL offers superb reading and delightfully makes the reader lose his or her existential bearings. Page after page, I feel as if I am dangling from a kind of Judgment and never propped up by the earth. As if the earth, the river, the same memories that have constituted the earth, the same Time that has made up the earth, were your jungle, your realm, whereas we had been sentenced to the perspective of an endless suspended punishment. The prose parts, which especially reveal your poetic craft, create an apocalyptic impression in which gentleness—barred from the human race, which does not even establish its own kingdom—ultimately falls only to those unhappy animals that you embrace one by one. The victims."—Cristina Annino.
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2017
Alfredo de Palchi was born on December 13, 1926, in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He is the son of Carlo Giop and Ines de Palchi.
De Palchi attended Sorbonne University and the University of Paris.
After the World War II, de Palchi was a political prisoner from 1945 to 1951. He then lived in Paris, France and in Spain. Together with his wife Sonia Raiziss edited Chelsea magazine from 1960 on.
On October 12, 1956, de Palchi arrived in New York City. He is the publisher of the non-profit Chelsea Editions and a trustee of the Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation.
During his career, he was also a judge for the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards.
(Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by...)
1993(Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by...)
1997(Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the Italian,...)
2017In 1952 de Palchi married Sonia Raiziss. However, Raiziss then deceased, and de Palchi married his second wife Rita Di Pace, with whom he has one daughter, Luce.