‘The poetic structure of the disintegrating text’

Wladyslaw Strzeminski, from Cheap as Mud series II

Isolated figures    drawn   on a blank piece of paper             with a meandering line            War Against Homes               And everything is gone   impersonality           Cheap as Mud            Rigor Mortis. Gestures.       Ink on white, light-grey, light-brown, or greenish paper            bordering these documentary       photographs          The Existence of Feet that Trod             and receding into a boundless white void    In 1952 Strzeminski was writing               unfinished before his death           a novel                   ‘The poetic structure of the disintegrating text’

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