Velimir (Viktor Vladimirovich) Khlebnikov (Nov. 9, 1885 - 1922) was a poet and prose writer, an outstanding figure of Russian avant-garde art, one of the initiators of Russian futurism, a reformer of poetic language, and an experimentalist in word creation and “zaum” (roughly translated as “trans-sense” or “trans-rational”), i.e. the ultimate poetic language, devised by him…
“Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.” ― Velimir Khlebnikov
Photo: Petrograd, 1915
