Defining Zaum as a language beyond the other side or "beyond sense," Janecek traces the history of this Russian sound-language poetry through the works of its most prominent writers. He writes that "what might seem to be a minor episode in Russian avant-garde poetry has very broad implications and a historical scope that ranges from Plato to current theories of language and literature (e.g., Deconstructivism). Janecek gave this book to Marvin Sackner at the Eye Rhymes conference in Edmonton, Canada, May 1997. Janecek acknowledges that the image of Figure 25, page 279, a page from Zdanevich's "Dunkee for Rent." was reproduced by courtesy of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a result of a collaborative correspondence art project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes individual drawings from Kirill Zdanevich's sketch book of 1914-1915, a book with identifiable gray paper pages and evidence that several drawings had been cut from it. Several posters and books by Ilya Zdanevich reproduced in the catalogue have been and are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.