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

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.