Velimir Khlebnikov, the inventor of zaum ("transrational language")
Watten's description of zaum: "a poetic language operating on the phonemic level, ascribing meaning below the level of the word" (7)
"he was interested in boundless generation [and] the proliferation of new forms"
see his "Invocation by Laughter"
> from Barrett Watten's Total Syntax (1984)
> tagged with #weirdos, #language, #poetics, #meaning
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