Sonia Raiziss Explained

Sonia Raiziss
Birth Date:	13 October 1906
Occupation:	Editor, poet
Nationality:	American
Genre:	poetry
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Sonia Raiziss Giop (October 13, 1906^[1] – March 19, 1994) was an American poet, critic, and translator.

Life and career

Raiziss was born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She was raised in Philadelphia, where her father biochemist George W. Raiziss, taught at the University of Philadelphia. She saw her earliest poems published while she was still in high school. Raiziss went on to earn undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Philadelphia and also studied at Columbia University. While studying at the Sorbonne, she published her first poetry collection, Through a Glass Darkly.

was an editor of Chelsea (magazine), from 1960 to 1994, with Ursule Molinaro,^[2] featuring poems and prose by Denise Levertov,^[3] Sylvia Plath, Umberto Eco, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley. She corresponded with Laura Riding,^[4] and David Finkel.^[5]

Her work appeared in American prefaces,^[6] The Atlantic,^[7] Beloit Poetry Journal.^[8] Granite,^[9] The Prairie Schooner,^[10] Plainsong,^[11] Virginia Quarterly Review,^[12] Yale Poetry Review.^[13]

As a member of the League of American Writers, she served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact.^[14]

She lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She married Alfredo Giop de Palchi. She adopted a son, Peter St. Mu Raiziss of Sacramento, California. Sonia died in Manhattan.^{[2] [15]}

Philanthropy

Her Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation^[16] (Alfredo de Palchi trustee)^[17] continues to fund the Jane Austen Essay Contest,^[18] Bordighera Poetry Prize, and the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards.

Awards

• 1937 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Poetry

• Jobhunter. 1 . Winter 1950–1951. 12–13. Beloit Poetry Journal.
• "The Unripe Dead", Verse Daily, 2006
• Book: Through a Glass Darkly. Book Club Associates. 1932 .
• Book: Bucks County Blues. New Rivers Press. 1977. 978-0-912284-90-3 .

Translation

• Arizona. 14 . Fall 1963. 9–10 . Beloit Poetry Journal. Alfredo de Palchi . Alfredo de Palchi.
• "The Scorpion's Dark Dance" (1993), Alfredo de Palchi.

Criticism

• "Metaphysical Passion: Seven Modern American Poets and the 17th-Century Tradition," 1952 University of Philadelphia and reissued by Greenwood Press in 1970.

External links

• Alfredo de Palchi and Sona Raiziss Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sonia Raiziss . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. June 30, 2016.
2. Ursule Molinaro. The Review of Contemporary Fiction. 22 March 2002. Bruce Benderson .
3. Book: Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov: the poetry of politics, the politics of poetry. 99–100. Albert Gelpi, Robert J. Bertholf. Stanford University Press. 2006. 978-0-8047-5131-5.
4. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM04608.html#raiziss Guide to the Guide to the Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson collection, 1924–1991
5. http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00045.html Finding-Aid for the Donald Finkel Papers (WTU00045)
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=4oLQAAAAMAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss American prefaces – University of Iowa – Google Books
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=XZkGAQAAIAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss The Atlantic – Cairns Collection of American Women Writers – Google Books
8. http://www.bpj.org/index/R.html#Raiziss%20Sonia Beloit Poetry Journal – Author Index
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=dbeRAAAAIAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss Granite – Google Books
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=zxc0AAAAIAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss The Prairie Schooner – Google Books
11. https://books.google.com/books?id=WQyyAAAAIAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss Plainsong – Google Books
12. https://books.google.com/books?id=XqcQAAAAIAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss The Virginia quarterly review – University of Virginia – Google Books
13. https://books.google.com/books?id=mrY4AAAAIAAJ&q=Sonia+Raiziss Yale poetry review – Google Books
14. Franklin Folsom, Days of Anger, Days of Hope, University Press of Colorado, 1994,
15. News: Sonia Raiziss, A Poet, Critic And Editor, 85. Wolfgang. Saxon. April 9, 1994. . June 30, 2016.
16. http://www.implu.com/nonprofit/256453053 Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation
17. Alfredo de Palchi . . Daniela . Gioseffi . February 2001. 15 . 16 February 2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20010216233911/https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/15/depalchi.html . Daniela Gioseffi . en . 3 July 2023 .
18. http://www.jasna.org/essaycontest/index.html The Jane Austen Society of North America – Essay Contest