Antonio Porchia

Antonio Porchia ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentine poet.

Porchia was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Porchia wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into Italian and into English (by W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, 2003), French, and German.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.