Antonio Porchia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Antonio Porchia

Italian Argentinian poet

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1885

Place of Birth: Conflenti, Calabria, Italy

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1968

Profession: writer, poet, aphorist

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Antonio Porchia

  • 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.

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