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Von Händler/Antiquariat, chimerabooksandmusic.
Antonio Porchia (1886–1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by translator W.S. Merwin, this bilingual volume brings back into print one of Latin America’s great literary treasures.He who tells the truth says almost nothing. * I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. * Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long. * Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. * When I come upon some idea that is not of this world, I feel as though this world had grown wider. * This world understands nothing but words, and you have come into it with almost none. * We become aware of the void as we fill it.Antonio Porchia (1886–1968) was born in Italy. After his father died, he emigrated to Argentina with his mother and seven siblings, and as the eldest child, started working at the age of 14. He was self-taught, and his only book, Voices, caught the attention of a noted French critic who assumed him to be a scholar of Kafka and Buddhism, rather than the humble man who loved to tend his garden. Today, Porchia’s aphorisms are published in more than a dozen Spanish-language editions as well as in German, French and Italian.W.S. Merwin’s awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the Tanning Prize, the Bollingen Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and translations. He lives in Hawaii., Paperback, Ausgabe: Rep Sub, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1988-03-12, Freigegeben: 1988-03-12, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 6012593.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Zeno's.
Chicago. 1969. Big Table Publishing Company. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Worn Dustjacket. Translated by W. S. Merwin. 64 pages. hardcover. Cover art - The gouache by Rene Magritte-Le Mat du Pays (1940). 0695891316. keywords: Literature Translated Argentina Latin America. inventory # 8675. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here is the first English translation of the lucid, enigmatic poems by Antonio Porchia-the great but little-known Argentine who died at 82 in 1968. Born in 1886 in Italy, Señor Porchia lived from 1911 in Buenos Aires, writing in Spanish and working as a potter or carpenter. The distinguished younger American poet W. S. Merwin has selected some 250 poems-often one or two line aphorisms-out of the 600 contained in the several editions of Voces which Señor Porchia published since 1943. Of the originality of these poems, Mr. Merwin comments in a succinct introduction: `The aphorisms are not, in his view, compositions of his own so much as emanations which he has heard and set down. The fidelity of Porchia´s vision, and its personal embodiment in language, is too sharp, and frequently too desperate, to be tempted to homiletics. On the contrary, the distillate of suffering. is pure and profound irony- an irony not of defense but of acceptance.´ The first collection of Porchia´s VOICES appeared in Buenos Aires, in a private edition, in 1943, and attracted little attention. A copy was sent by the author to the French critic Roger Caillois, who was moved to translate a selection of the aphorisms and publish them, with an introduction, in 1949, The somewhat patronizing tone in which Caillois presented his discovery did not conceal a sense of having been given a rare and original work, and the aphorisms themselves, in his versions, found at the time a number of admirers in the French literary world. Caillois, wanting to find out what sort of man had written and sent this surprising volume, had looked into the matter and `found myself in the presence of a man somewhere in his fifties, respectably-though neither studiously nor elegantly-dressed; a potter or carpenter by trade, I forget which, and self-employed, what is more; at once simple and shy, and altogether such that I assured myself, simply as a formality, first by means of certain subterfuges, and then quite openly, that he had never in his life heard of Lao-Tzu or Kafka,´ (By whom Caillois had suspected his unknown author to be influenced.) Judging by Caillois´ observations, the remarkable content of the Voices is iii a peculiarly pure sense the product of Porchia´s own non-literary experience. Of this, or of its circumstances, little is publicly known beyond a few facts so bare that they would fit on any tombstone, Antonio Porchia was born in Italy in 1886, lived in Argentina from 1911, and died in 1968, VOICES represents the whole of his writing-some six hundred entries in all, There have been several editions since the first one. The most recent (and in Porchia´s judgment the most complete, though it does not include some from the first collection) was published in 1966, and it is from this edition that the present selection has been made, Some of the entries, Porchia has stated, evolved over the course of years; some he has deleted in favor of later ones which, in his opinion, convey the same sense better, But the aphorisms themselves are not, in his view, compositions of his own so much as emanations which he has heard and set down. It is easy to see why Caillios might have imagined that Porchia owed something to certain Eastern texts, and perhaps to some moderns such as Kafka, A few of the aphorisms have close affinities with sentences from Taoist and Buddhist scriptures; others suggest, among the moderns, not only Kafka but Lichtenberg, or-to someone whose language is English-Blake. Caillois´ determining, to his own satisfaction, that Porchia was unfamiliar with such possible mentors is interesting, surprising, and in the end remains for the most part a matter of curiosity rather than a contribution to an assessment of the values and originality of Porchia´s VOICES. For the authority which the entries invoke, both in their matter and in their tone, is not that of tradition or antecedents, but that of particular, individual experience. Whatever system may be glimpsed binding the whole together is not fashioned from any logic except that of one man´s cast of existence, It is this which makes the work as a whole, and some of the separate sentences, elusive, but it is this which gives them their unmistakable pure immediacy-their quality of voice. At the same time, the entries and the work as a whole assume and evoke the existence of an absolute, of the knowledge of it which is truth, and of the immense desirability of such knowledge. With no doctrinal allegiances, nor any attempt at dogmatic system, Porchia´s utterances are obviously, in this sense, a spiritual, quite as much as a literary, testament, And the center to which they bear witness as well as the matrix of their form, is the private ordeal and awe of individual existence, the reality that is glimpsed through time and circumstance, as a consequence of feeling and suffering. It is this ground of personal revelation and its logic, in the sentences, that marks their kinship, not with theology but with poetry. And yet the reality of the self, except as suffering, is not an unquestionable certainty. `My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer,´ In any event, the self is less real than that which is greater than it, on which it depends. `We see by means of something which illumines us, which we do not see.´ The fidelity of Porchia´s vision, and its personal embodiment in language, is too sharp, and frequently too desperate, however, to be tempted to homiletics, On the contrary, the distillate of suffering in some of the entries is pure and profound irony-an irony not of defense but of acceptance. `Every toy has to break,´ `When I throw away what I don´t want, it will fall within reach.´ It is finally the acceptance, with its irony, that underlies the suffering and the vision and relates them to each other in a way that suggests that the relation may be the privilege of man´s existence. The first collection of Porchia´s VOICES appeared in Buenos Aires, in a private edition, in 1943. ISBN: 0695891316.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, IL, Wadsworth, [RE:5].
First edition. Hardcover. A collection of poems by Porchia translated by W.S. Merwin, the first time his poems have appeared in English. A fine copy in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Other.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA.
Chicago, IL: Big Table Publishing Company, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of poems by Porchia translated by W.S. Merwin, the first time his poems have appeared in English. A fine copy in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, HPB-Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, [RE:5].
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Express.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hippo Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Pages may have contain writing, highlighting or notes. May be an ex library copy with library markings. Dust jacket or accessories may not be included. Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, oblivion books, wa, seattle, [RE:4].
Very Good Soft cover. Clean text--NO writing, NO highlighting to text. Very Good condition. Paperback, Rev and Enl ed.

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