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

Proposal: A Poem in the Style of Zdanevich's "As Though Zga"

I would like to create a poem in a form inspired by Ilia Zdanevich's "As Though Zga" (link below). The idea of the page is to infer multiple possible readings of the poem from its typography. The work will be set in movable type with common elements of two or more words in large lettering, and associated prefixes/suffixes in smaller type justified with the top, bottom, and center of each larger common element (see link for example). While Zdanevich's poem includes numbering for some possible "roadmap" for reading the poem, I would like to omit such a scheme to increase the number of possible readings. The poem will be centered horizontally and vertically on the page, and will be between 4 and 7 lines long (not including sub-lines within each).

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/exploding-tongues/media/as-though-zga?t=1490756651439

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