Alfredo De Palchi Alfredo de Palchi was born in Legnano (near Verona) in 1926. His most recent book of poetry is THE AESTHETICS OF EQUILIBRIUM (Xenos Books/Chelsea Editions, 2019), translated by John Taylor. After sojourns in Paris and Barcelona in the 1950s, he movedto the United States in 1956. He first became known in Italy when his poetry collection Sessioni con l'analista (Sessions with My Analyst) appeared in 1967 at Mondadori. In the United States, Xenos Books has published four bilingual editions of de Palchi's work: NIHIL (2017), ADDICTIVE AVERSIONS (1999), ANONYMOUS CONSTELLATION (1997), and THE SCORPION'S DARK DANCE (1993). In 2013, Chelsea Editions issued his PARADIGM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1947-2009 (2013), which includes the translation of much recent poetry previously available only in Italian. His work has been widely analyzed by critics and fellow poets, notably in Giorgio Linguaglossa's La poesia di Alfredo de Palchi (Edizioni Projetto Cultura, 2017), Plinio Perilli's Il cuore animale. Vita/romanzo e poesia/messaggio di Alfredo de Palchi (Impería, 2016), Guiseppe Panella's The Poetry of Alfredo de Palchi: An Interview and Three Essays (Chelsea Editions, 2013), A Life Gambled in Poetry: Homage to Alfredo de Palchi (Gradiva Publications, 2011), and several special issues of journals. He lives in Manhattan. Read More Read Less