de PALCHI, Alfredo 1926-

PERSONAL: Born December 13, 1926, in Verona, Italy; son of Carlo Giop and Ines de Palchi; married Sonia Raiziss, 1952 (deceased); married Rita di Pace (a curator of art), June 23, 1989; children: Luce. Ethnicity: "Caucasian."

ADDRESSES: Home—33 Union Square W., New York, NY 10003; fax: 212-989-3083. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Chelsea Associates, Inc., editor of Chelsea and publisher of Chelsea Editions; poet and translator. Prisoner of war, 1945-51.

WRITINGS:

(Editor of Italian section, with Sonia Raiziss) Modern European Poetry, Bantam (New York, NY), 1966.

Sessioni con l'analista (poetry), Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1967, translation by I. L. Salomon published as Sessions with My Analyst, October House (Stonington, CT), 1970.

Mutazioni (poetry), Campanotto (Udine, Italy), 1988.

The Scorpion's Dark Dance = La buia danza di scorpione (poetry), English translation by Sonia Raiziss, Xenos Books (Riverside, CA), 1993, 2nd edition, 1995.

Anonymous Constellation (poetry), translated by Sonia Raiziss, Xenos Books (Riverside, CA), 1997.

(Editor, with Michael Palma) Luciano Erba, The Metaphysical Streetcar Conductor: Sixty Poems, Gradiva Publications, 1998.

Addictive Aversions = Le Viziose Avversioni, English translation by Michael Palma, Xenos Books (Riverside, CA), 1999.

Paradigma (poetry), Caramanica (Marino di Mintuano, Italy), 2001, English translation by Barbara Carle, forthcoming.

Contributor of poetry and translations to magazines, including American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, New Letters, and TriQuarterly.

SIDELIGHTS: Alfredo de Palchi told CA: "My primary motivation for writing is that I consider myself an artist—from the beginning. My work is influenced by a thought, an image—the so-called inspiration. My writing is inspired by my early life as a political prisoner, and the beauty of women, and my voluntary exile.

"My writing process is: after having written a poem of twenty lines, I strip it down to five to ten lines. I found my voice in the beginning, but one can hear it and see it in all my writings in various intonations. Each book is different—doesn't repeat itself."