Poetic Obituaries: In the early 1960s, [Edoardo] Sanguineti helped found

and influence the so-called "Gruppo 63," in which experimental poetry explored what he considered the "dissolution" of daily language.

In a tribute, President Giorgio Napolitano recalled how he came to know and appreciate Sanguineti when the two were Communist lawmakers in Parliament from 1979-1983. State TV said Sanguineti liked to call himself "the last Marxist."

from Associated Press: Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet, 79, dies

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