Sonia Raiziss

Sonia Raiziss Giop (October 13, 1906 – March 19, 1994) featuring poems and prose by Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Umberto Eco, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley. She corresponded with Laura Riding, and David Finkel.

Her work appeared in American prefaces, The Atlantic, Beloit Poetry Journal. Granite, The Prairie Schooner, Plainsong, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Poetry Review.

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.

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.

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

Awards 1937 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Poetry

"The Unripe Dead", Verse Daily, 2006

Translation

"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.