Voices
Contributors: W. S. Merwin (Translator)
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781556591891
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Poetry; Caribbean & Latin American; Poetry / General; General; Aphorisms and apothegms
First sentence: The first collection of Porchia's Voices appeared in Buenos Aires, in a private edition, in 1943, and attracted little attention.
Description: "Antonio Porchia (1886-1968) was born in Italy and immigrated to Argentina with his mother and six siblings upon his father's death. He first worked in the port of Buenos Aires as a basket weaver, and later purchased and operated a printing shop with his brother. Porchia never married, and lived a humble, solitary life in near poverty. Voices is his only book, which he revised and expanded throughout his life."--BOOK JACKET.