Richard Milazzo

Who is Richard Milazzo?

Richard Milazzo is a critic, curator, publisher, independent scholar and poet. In the 1970s, he was the editor and co-publisher of Out of London Press. Among the books he edited were The Syntactic Revolution: Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie and the first English facsimile edition of Pontormo’s Diary. Other titles included the first monograph on Vito Acconci by Mario Diacono, Discussion by Annina Nosei-Weber and Robert Pincus-Witten’s Postminimalism. In 1981, he co-edited La rosa disabitata 1960-1980 for Feltrinelli, one of the first anthologies to document the post-Gertrude Stein ‘Language’ writing movement in America, which included the writings of Vito Acconci, Charles Bernstein, John Cage, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Dick Higgins, Frank Kuenstler, Jackson Mac Low, Bob Perelman, Bern Porter and Jerome Rothenberg, among others.