Michael Palma has previously translated sixteen books of Italian poets, including prizewinning volumes of Guido Gozzano and Diego Valeri and a fully rhymed translation of Dante's Inferno. He has two previous translations with Chelsea Editions: Maurizio Cucchi's No Part to Play: Selected Poems 1965-2009, and Giovanni Raboni's Every Third Thought: Selected Poems 1950-2004. His own books of poetry are The Egg Shape, Antibodies, A Fortune in Gold, Begin in Gladness, and an online chapbook, The Ghost of Congress Street. He has written about his art in FAITHFUL IN MY FASHION: ESSAYS ON THE TRANSLATION OF POETRY (Xenos-Chelsea, 2017), also available at SPD.