Her studies on nonsense, on wit writers, and all her translations of Lewis Carroll, are the basic instruments for investigating the most subtle potentialities of language. Graffi was born and lives in Milano, Italy. In the 1970s she was part of the avant-garde mouvement “poesia totale” centered on the the magazine “tamtam.” She performed sound poetry. She has published three books of poetry: Mille graffi e venti poesie, 1979; Fragili film, 1987; and L’amore meccanico, 1994. She has translated Lewis Carroll, C. Darwin and C. Dickens into Italian; and written essays on the avant-garde’s relation to the comic, and on nonsense in Marinetti, Palazzeschi and Breton.