Monday, January 19, 2009

Zaum Poetry Books

I have a fascination with Silver Age Russian Poetry and am particularly curious about the Futurist movement that created its own language in a sense called Zaum. So I found this site:

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/russian_avant-garde/pdfs.html

which is really fantastic because it is a digital collection of some of the most famous futurist poetry collections by artists like Velimir Khlebnikov and Krychenykh. Admittedly this is an acquired taste as the interpretation of the abstract language they used to create poetry is pretty impossible to understand sometimes but I think the idea that they could even come up with it to begin with is a credit to the artists involved.

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