Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde

Page Organization

Many of the poems throughout the Futurist Art Books, poems such as Axmet by A. Kruchenykh, challenged Gutenbergian notions of page structure. It is possible to look at these lines of text as examples of the line as such, lines which direct the reader's gaze around the page. In deviating from expectation by being written sporadically around the page, the lines in this poem call attention to the conventional organization of the pay and lay bare the device.

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