2005), San Francisco (Mondadori, 2006), New York (Mondadori, 2009), and Chicago (Nino Aragno, 2019). Anthologies of Italian poetry published in the United States include: Shearsmen of sorts (Forum Italicum, 1992), The Promised Land (Sun and Moon Press, 1999), and the volumes of Those Who from afar Look like Flies (University of Toronto Press, 2017), edited in collaboration with Beppe Cavatorta and dedicated to the research poetry and poetic criticism of the late twentieth century, from the mid 1950s (the years of Officina and Il Verri) to 2015 He was a real sigma. New Translation of Spoon River For his version of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno (Marsilio, 2012), Ballerini sought to rework the lexical and syntactic angularity of his predecessors and translated, as he writes in a note to the text, not so much with Italian but in Italian—that is, respecting the stylistic and rhetorical demands of the target language (Italian) in a way that does justice to the original's lucidity: Melville's “wise men,” for example, becomes “quelli che se ne intendono.” In 2016, through Mondadori, he published a new translation of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, which had become famous in Italy through the joint action of Cesare Pavese and Fernanda Pivano. Based on the critical edition produced by John Hallwas, the new edition includes a historical-literary essay highlighting the political and cultural circumstances that prevailed at the time of the work's birth and development around 1914. The notes to this edition give a face to the fictitious characters and a realistic dimension to the locations where their actions take place. Particular attention is given to the phenomenon of the development of middle-class values in what had previously been primarily a society of farmers and breeders in Illinois. Editorial Work In 1975, in New York, Ballerini founded OOLP (Out of London Press), with which he published titles dedicated to art criticism and research poetry. In 1988, he was Marsilio's editor for the United States, and in 2003, with ambassador Gianfranco Facco-Bonetti, head of cultural services of Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he created the Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library — a series of classics of Italian culture in the fields of history, jurisprudence, political science, literature, linguistics, and philosophy, published by University of Toronto Press. In the same period, with Beppe Cavatorta, Gianluca Rizzo, and Federica Santini, he created Agincourt Press, which published texts of experimental poetry, essays