Giancarlo Majorino (1928, Milan), poet, critic, President of the Casa della Poesia in Milan. He teaches at NABA – Nouva Accademia de Belle Arti – in Milan. Cofounder and editor of numerous reviews, such as the Il Corpo, Manocomete and the Incognita. His works have been translated into English, French, Spanish and Russian, and have been published in several anthologies. His works include the Autontalogia, (1999), an autobiographical anthology, and a three-volume anthology of his published works as a critic, the Poesie e realtà ‘45-’75 (Poetry and Reality ’45-’75, 1977), Centanni di letteratura (Hundred Years of Literature, 1984) and Poesie e realtà 1945-2000 (Poetry and Reality 1945-2000, 2000), and a collection of critical works, the Passaggi critici (Critical Paths, 1984).