Faculty
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Luigi
Ballerini
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Born
in Milan in 1940, Luigi Ballerini lives in New
York and teaches modern and contemporary Italian Literature at the
University of California (Los Angeles).
Ballerini's
poetry has appeared under the following titles: eccetera. E
(Guanda, 1972 ), Che figurato muore (Scheiwiller, 1988),
Che oror l'orient (Lubrina, 1991), Il terzo gode
(Marsilio, 1994), Stracci shakespeariani (Quasar 1996),
Uscita senza strada (Edizioni della Battaglia, 2000) e
Uno monta la luna (Manni, 2001). His Cefalonia 43 e
altre poesie will be poublished by Mondadori in February of
2005.
His
anthologies of American and Italian Poetry include La rosa disabitata
(Feltrinelli, 1981), Shearsmen of Sorts (Forum Italicum
1992) and The Promised Land (Sun & Moon, 1999).
He
has translated into Italian several books by American authors including
Herman Melville, Henry James, William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin,
Kurt Vonegut. His anthology of Gertrude Stein's poetry, La sacra
Emilia e altre poesie, was published by Marsilio (Venice) in
1999.
He
has written extensively on avant-garde literature and poetry (La
piramide capovolta, Marsilio 1975), Guido Cavalcanti (Colui
che vede Amore, Olschi, 2004) and on poetics (La legge
dell'ingratitudine), and on gastronomy: his edition of Pellegrino
Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
is scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2003 (University of
Toronto Press), while his Maestro Martino: The Book of the Culinary
Art, will be published by the University of California Press,
in the Spring of 2004. He contributes to Gastronomica and
the Italian TV Program Il gambero rosso. He is also, and
is the general editor of Cum grano salis a series of books
dedicated to Historical Gastronomy published in Milan by Guido Tommasi
Editore.
His
edition of F.T. Marinetti's Gli indomabili has been issued
by Mondadori in the year 2000, followed in the Spring of 2003 by
that of Mafarka il futurista.
He
has curated exhibitions of Contemporary Italian Art including Italian
Visual Writing, (New York, Finch Museum and Torino, Galleria
civica d'arte moderna, 1973) and Spelt from Sybil's Leaves
(Sydney, Power Gallery, 1984). He has also convened a number of
conferences: The Disappearing Pheasant I (New York, NYU,
1991) and The Disappearing Pheasant II (Los Angeles, UCLA,
1994).
A
number of his publication have been realized in cooperation with
Artists. Among them: La parte allegra del pesce (with Paolo
Icaro, Telai del Bernini 1984), Leggenda di Paolo Icaro
(Essegi, 1985), La torre dei filosofi (with Eliseo Mattiacci
and Remo Bodei, Essegi, 1986), Selvaggina (with Angelo
Savelli, Scheiwiller, 1988), Una pił del diavolo (with
Marco Gastini, Noire 1994), Navi di terra e di mare (with
Marco Gastini, Montanari, 1999), Vademecum per il Carro solare
di Eliseo Mattiacci (Scheiwiller, 2004).
In
1992 he was awarded the Feronia Prize for Poetry.
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