Porchia was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina.
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[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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