I Novissimi: poesie per gli anni ’60

I Novissimi: poesie per gli anni ’60 is an anthology edited by Alfredo Giuliani that introduced a new avant-garde movement in Italian poetry during the 1960s. The poets in this collection, including Giuliani himself, Elio Pagliarani, Edoardo Sanguineti, Nanni Balestrini, and Antonio Porta, aimed to subvert traditional literary language, which they saw as a tool of bourgeois hegemony. They believed that a radical linguistic revolution would lead to social and political liberation.1

This movement, also known as Gruppo 63, sought to challenge the established literary order through experimentalism and a focus on the inseparability of literature and politics. While their ambitious goals of social change through language did not fully materialize, their innovative approach significantly impacted Italian poetry, influencing subsequent generations of writers.1