Antonio Porchia (November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentinian poet.
Porchia was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina.[1]
Porchia wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into Italian and into English (byW.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, 2003), French, and German.[2][3]
A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, Porchia has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Don Paterson, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others.[4] Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.
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