Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935. In addition to being a poet, he is a narrator, visual artist, and playwright. He is an experimenter of the connections that link words, texts, and images. With Pagliarani, Giuliani, Sanguineti, and Porta, he became part of the anthology I Novissimi (1961), which is a bit of a prelude to the neo-avant-garde and Gruppo ’63, of which Bal...