Alfredo de Palchi

The Missing Link in Late Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Giorgio Linguaglossa - Translated by Steven Grieco-Rathgeb - Foreword by Anthony Julian Tamburri - Interviewer Roberto Bertoldo - Interviewee Alfredo de Palchi - Afterword by John Taylor

In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi’s lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. From page one of this study, de Palchi’s voice is in constant dialogue with the Italian poets of his time. Linguaglossa gives us a complete picture of the relationship between de Palchi’s asymptomatic creative paradigm and what was taking place around him. While the majority of de Palchi’s life was spent outside of Italy, he continued to engage with Italy in his poetry, in translating Italian poets into English and for close to fifty years as co-editor, with Sonia Raiziss, of Chelsea magazine, a biannual that published a significant number of translations of twentieth-century Italian poets. Through Chelsea magazine de Palchi also became a conduit, bringing Italian poetry to non-Italian-speaking poetry aficionados in the United States. It is especially his own verse, written outside the geocultural boundaries that we know as Italy, which makes this study by Giorgio Linguaglossa all the more important.

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 118 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½

978-1-68393-269-7 • Hardback • December 2020 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-1-68393-270-3 • eBook • December 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian, Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

Alfredo de Palchi

The Missing Link in Late Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

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In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi’s lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. From page one of this study, de Palchi’s voice is in constant dialogue with the Italian poets of his time. Linguaglossa gives us a complete picture of the relationship between de Palchi’s asymptomatic creative paradigm and what was taking place around him. While the majority of de Palchi’s life was spent outside of Italy, he continued to engage with Italy in his poetry, in translating Italian poets into English and for close to fifty years as co-editor, with Sonia Raiziss, of Chelsea magazine, a biannual that published a significant number of translations of twentieth-century Italian poets. Through Chelsea magazine de Palchi also became a conduit, bringing Italian poetry to non-Italian-speaking poetry aficionados in the United States. It is especially his own verse, written outside the geocultural boundaries that we know as Italy, which makes this study by Giorgio Linguaglossa all the more important.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 118 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½

978-1-68393-269-7 • Hardback • December 2020 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-1-68393-270-3 • eBook • December 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian, Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

Author

Giorgio Linguaglossa is a critic, author, and poet.
Steven Grieco-Rathgeb is a poet and translator.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Anthony Julian Tamburri
Chapter 1
Alfredo de Palchi’s Poetry Between Modern and Postmodern Times
Chapter 2
The Missing Link in Italian Poetry of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 3
The Revolution of Form in the 1950s and 1960s: The Scorpion’s Dark Dance
Chapter 4
Poetry as an Expression of Libidinal Effraction: A Psychoanalytical Investigation of The Scorpion’s Dark Dance
Chapter 5
The 1960s: Sessions with My Analyst
Chapter 6
The Ghost and the “Thing” in the Symbolic Order of Alfredo de Palchi’s Poetry
Chapter 7
Reading a Poem by Alfredo de Palchi: (non-communication) in Sessions with My Analyst
Chapter 8
The Issue is the Inexpressibility of the Assertorial Order: Alfredo de Palchi’s Poetic Discourse
Chapter 9
The Unstable Structure of Anonymous Constellation: de Palchi’s Poetry from the 1970s to the 1990s
Chapter 10
Regarding Foemina Tellus: de Palchi’s Poetry from the 1990s into the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 11
Alfredo de Palchi’s Poetry in the New Millennium: Apropos of Nihil, The Aesthetics of Equilibrium, and Eventi terminali
Roberto Bertoldo Interviews Alfredo de Palchi
Afterword by John Taylor