Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan on July 2, 1935. He was part of many other writers - among which Umberto Eco, Edoardo Sanguineti, Antonio Porta, Giorgio Manganelli, Luigi Malerba, etc.? from the neo-avant-garde, Italian literary movement that emerged in the first half of the 1960s that was characterized by its strong formal experimentation, especially in poetry. The group was initially called? I Novissimi? and when it was enlarged, it took the name of? Gruppo 63 ?.
He is the author of poetry (Come si agisce, 1963; Ma noi facciamo un? altra, 1968; Le ballate della signorina Richmond, 1977; Blackout, 1980) and novels (Tristano, 1966; Vogliamo tutto, 1971; La violenza illustrata, 1976; Gli invisibili, 1987). Cultural agitator, its neo-avant-garde spirit, its? Pollution? between literary experimentation and political commitment, it is characterized by theoretical coherence.
He was editor of the cultural journals Il Verri, Quindici, Alfabeta, Zoooom. In the last fifty years, in parallel to his poetic and narrative production, he has carried out an important experimentation in the visual field adopting techniques always related to collage. Different procedures and materials (printed paper, stamps, plastic, typographic sheets, geographical maps, new technologies?) That create a universe of contemporary verbal images, a great visual narration where the chronicle is mixed with aesthetic and social reflection.
