Balestrini's collaboration with this Italian critic started officially in 1957, when some of his poems appeared in
Il Verri, the journal that Anceschi had just founded. Balestrini also began serving as a member of the editorial board of the journal.
Il Verri soon became the promoting voice of the "Gruppo 63," the avant-garde group born in Milan under Anceschi's auspices. The group's dialectical relationship with the critic's thought is implied by the name coined by Edoardo Sanguineti for the five leaders of the group: novissimi (very new lyric poets), for Anceschi before had championed the lirici nuovi (new lyric poets). Balestrini, the youngest member of "Gruppo 63," held a well-articulated ideological position and organized the meetings and conferences of the writers.
In his essay "Linguaggio e opposizione" (Language and Opposition)--collected in the volume Critica e teoria (Criticism and Theory, 1976) edited by Renato Barilli and Angelo Guglielmi--Balestrini argues that language is at an impasse since "il bisogno di servirsi con immediatezza delle parole porta infatti a un'approssimazione per difetto o per eccesso rispetto al contenuto originario della comunicazione" (the need to use words with immediacy leads in fact to approximation due to deficiency or excess with respect to the original content of communication).
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