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Edoardo Sanguineti is the most important poet in Italy's neo-vanguard movement. His linguistic experiments have become very popular among Italians and in many countries throughout the world. They contain a wonderful lyrical continuity beyond their linguistic disorder. His work captures the anguish, the wit, and the need for human love in a world often beset by chaos. His wordplay and multiple levels of meaning and use of suggestiveness, together with his use of musical connotations, make his work exceptionally difficult to translate. Much of it has been set to music by the famous composer Luciano Berio.