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Author: Alfredo de Palchi

Alfredo de Palchi (1926-2020) was one of the major Italian poets of the last century and the beginning of the present century. He was born in Legnano, near Verona. As a teenager in World War II Italy, he was grabbed by self- proclaimed authorities, charged with a murder and thrown into prison. There he was tortured, but refused to confess. A fellow prisoner told him about François Villon, and he scratched his first poem on the wall of his cell. He spent the years of 1945-1951 in prison. In 1955 the Court of Assizes in Venice cleared him of charges, and after sojourns in Paris and Barcelona he came to America. Continuing to publish in his native tongue in Italy, he published bilingual editions of his work in New York with deft English translations, first by Isidore Salomon, then by Sonia Raiziss, and lastly by John Taylor. More than any other person in America, he faithfully promoted Italian poetry and prose, both with the New York journal Chelsea, which he ran from 1960 to 2007, and with his non-profit publishing house Chelsea Editions, which remained active up to the time of his death in August from leukemia. His first poetry collection, Sessioni con l'analista [Sessions with My Analyst], appeared in 1967 with Mondadori and won immediate acclaim. In the United States, following Sessions, he published exclusively with Xenos Books: THE SCORPION'S DARK DANCE (1993), ANONYMOUS CONSTELLATION (1997), ADDICTIVE AVERSIONS (1999), NIHIL (2017), THE AESTHETICS OF EQUILIBRIUM (2019) and now TERMINAL EVENTS (2020). He issued his collected works in 2013 with Chelsea Editions under the title PARADIGM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1947-2009.

Addictive Aversions
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Addictive Aversions

Xenos Books

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Sonia Raiziss and others. Each new book by Alfredo de Palchi is both a surprise and a challenge. In ANONYMOUS CONSTELLATION we encountered the destructive forces of nature, moving blindly thr...

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The Aesthetics of Equilibrium
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The Aesthetics of Equilibrium

Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions

Poetry. Fiction. Translated by John Taylor. Alfredo de Palchi, in his 93rd year, has produced another stunning book after the cosmic obliteration of NIHIL (Xenos Books, 2017). As in that book, THE AESTHETICS OF EQUILIBRIUM leaps from a realistic set...

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Anonymous Constellation
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Anonymous Constellation

Xenos Books

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 st...

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Anonymous Constellation
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Anonymous Constellation

Xenos Books

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 st...

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Nihil
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Nihil

Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions

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 sc...

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Paradigm: New and Selected Poems 1947-2009
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Paradigm: New and Selected Poems 1947-2009

Chelsea Editions

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Luigi Bonaffini, Barbarba Carle, Ned Condini, Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Michael Palma, Sonia Raiziss, I. L. Salomon, Gail Segal and John Taylor. Here in one volume is the lifework of a poet rec...

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The Scorpion's Dark Dance
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The Scorpion's Dark Dance

Xenos Books

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 th...

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TERMINAL EVENTS
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TERMINAL EVENTS

Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions

This last book by the late poet (1926 - 2020) ends a life in poetry well-planned: it presents an imagined discourse with poet Eugenio Montale, a fanciful and self-deprecatory autobiography, and a liberation of the planet Earth from the cruelty of ma...

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