Michael Palma

Michael Palma has previously translated sixteen books of Italian poets, including prizewinning volumes of Guido Gozzano and Diego Valeri and a fully rhymed translation of Dante's Inferno. He has two previous translations with Chelsea Editions: Maurizio Cucchi's No Part to Play: Selected Poems 1965-2009, and Giovanni Raboni's Every Third Thought: Selected Poems 1950-2004 . His own books of poetry are The Egg Shape, Antibodies, A Fortune in Gold, Begin in Gladness, and an online chapbook, The...See more

Michael Palma has previously translated sixteen books of Italian poets, including prizewinning volumes of Guido Gozzano and Diego Valeri and a fully rhymed translation of Dante's Inferno. He has two previous translations with Chelsea Editions: Maurizio Cucchi's No Part to Play: Selected Poems 1965-2009, and Giovanni Raboni's Every Third Thought: Selected Poems 1950-2004 . His own books of poetry are The Egg Shape, Antibodies, A Fortune in Gold, Begin in Gladness, and an online chapbook, The Ghost of Congress Street. He has written about his art in FAITHFUL IN MY FASHION: ESSAYS ON THE TRANSLATION OF POETRY (Xenos-Chelsea, 2017), also available at SPD. See less