Guido Oldani was born in 1947 inMelegnano (Milan) where he lives. His
writings have been published on the main Italian literary magazines, from Alfabeta to Paragone, from Il Belpaese to
Poesia. In
1985 he published Stilnostro(CENS Editions),a collection of his poems with an introduction by Giovanni Raboni. His second book Sapone(2001) was published by the international magazine Kamen, on the occasion of the
tenth anniversary of their publishing activity. Then he published La betoniera(Lietocolle, 2005. Some of his texts appear in anthologies such
as Poesiaitaliana
(1952-88), La via lombarda(Marcos y Marcos,
1988), Il pensierodominante(Garzanti,2001), Tuttol’amorechec’è(Einaudi, 2003), 80 poeti per gli 80 annidiLucianoErba(Interlinea, 2004)
and others texts have been translated into Enghish,
German, Rumenian and Hungarian. He is the editor of
the four editions of the AnnuariodiPoesia (CrocettiEditore) and has contributed to the cultural pages of Tuttolibri of the
daily paper La Stampaand of Agoràof the daily
paperAvvenire. ). He was a member of
the delegation which represented Italian poetry in New York in 2000. He works for “Il Politecnico” of Milan and
for the international foundation for poetry “Il Fiore” of Florence. For the theatre he has edited an
adaptation of the famous poem by Carlo PortaLaNinetta
del Verzèe and of the tragicomedy by Carlo Porta and TommasoGrossiGiovanni Maria ViscontiducadiMilano.
Hehasbeenwrittenabout, amongothers, by Maurizio Cucchi, Luciano Erba, Enzo Fabiani,
Giancarlo Majorino, Daniele MariaPegorari, Antonio Porta, Giovanni Raboni,
Angelo Romanò, Tiziano Rossi, Francesco Sberlati e Mario Spinella.
