Paradigm by Alfredo de Palchi and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from Italy.

Paradigm by Alfredo de Palchi translated by John Taylor is published by Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780988478718E12.

Paradigm, by Alfredo de Palchi and translated by John Taylor, sounds more architectural than decorative. A paradigm is a model, pattern, or system, and de Palchi’s Italian poetry tends to bring a fierce pressure to whatever structure it enters. Taylor’s translation offers English readers another encounter with a poet who often writes from confrontation, exile, body, and refusal. I would read Paradigm as a book interested in the forms that govern experience and the violence required to break them. The title is abstract, but the best abstract titles often become physical once the poems begin. What is the pattern of a life? What happens when the model no longer holds? De Palchi’s work seems built for that kind of breaking point.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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