Zakliatie smekhom by Velimir Khlebnikov in Studiia impressionistov, ed. It was first published in Studiia impressionistov (‘Impressionists’ studio’). It achieves this by using the one word stem, smekh or smeiat’sia (Russian for laughter/to laugh) to which prefixes and suffixes are added to generate new words without any external references or associations, so the poem becomes just the sound of laughter itself. One of the first examples of Futurist trans-sense poetry is Khlebnikov’s Zakliatie smekhom (‘Incantation by Laughter’). Photograph of Velimir Khlebnikov from Wikimedia Commons This new approach to poetic language adopted by the Russian Futurists aimed at liberating sound from meaning to create a primeval language of sounds. The dramatist reaches even higher in the supersagas "Otter's Children" and "Zangezi," achieving a Wagnerian fusion of action, poetry, history, theory, and the musical rhythms of incantation.Velimir Khlebnikov is the co-inventor along with his fellow Russian poet Aleksei Kruchenykh of trans-sense or transrational language ( zaum). In "The Little Devil," "The Marquise des S.," and the sardonic "Miss Death Makes a Mistakes," Khlebnikov finally finds a stageable theatrical form, in a mixture of satire, colloquial speech, and poetic reflections on art and immortality. "The Girl-God," symbolist-inspired, is a melange of stylistic shifts and impossible scene changes. But it is in the dramatic text that we best see Khlebnikov's struggle to find a workable form for his vision. The fictions, ranging from the mysterious "Murksong" to the epic "Yasir," show a great variety of styles and themes. They chronicle the artist's imagination in his feverish search for a poetics that could be as diverse as the universe itself. Paul Schmidt's are the first translations of these works into English. The second volume of the "Collected Works" consists of Khlebnikov's fiction (thirty-five short stories, dreams, mysteries, and fanciful folktales), his plays, and his unique supersagas, a syncretic genre he created to encompass his iconoclastic view of the world. In Russia a powerful and growing mythology surrounds this Futurist poet and his reputation elsewhere continues to mount. Velimir Khlebnikov, who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six, is one of the great innovators of literary modernism.
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