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He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy.
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Alfredo Giop
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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. 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 is the publisher of the non-profit Chelsea Editions.
A lecture series was named for him at the University of Hartford. lieutenant is tempting to declare that Alfredo de Palchi (b 1926) 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 (now gathered and sometimes rearranged, enlarged, or revised in the authoritative Paradigma: tutte le poesie: 1947-2005), 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.
