Luigi Ballerini was born in 1940, and lives in New York and Milan. The author of numerous essays on Italian Futurism, avant-garde literature and poetry, medieval poetry, historical gastronomy, and contemporary sculpture, he has edited several bilingual anthologies of Italian and American poetry, and translated a variety of American authors including Herman Melville, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein. His poetry has appeared under the following titles: eccetera. E (1972), Che figurato muore (1988), Che oror l'orient (1991), Il terzo gode (1994, The Cadence of a Neighboring Tribe, English edition, 1997) Stracci shakespeariani (1996), Uscita senza strada (2000), Uno monta la luna (2001), Cefalonia (2005, 2013), Se il tempo รจ matto (Mondadori, 2010), Una dozzina + 3 (2012). A volume of his collected poems will be published by Mondadori in April 2016.
