Isadore Isou

B Innovation I 

Destruction of WORDS for LETTERS

ISIDORE ISOU    Believes in the potential elevation beyond WORDS; wants 
		  the development of transmissions where nothing is
                  lost in the process; offers a verb equal to a shock. By 
		  the overload of expansion the forms leap up by themselves.
ISIDORE ISOU    Begins the destruction of words for letters.
ISIDORE ISOU    Wants letters to pull in among themselves all desires.
ISIDORE ISOU    Makes people stop using foregone conclusions, words.
ISIDORE ISOU    Shows another way out between WORDS and RENUNCIATION:
                   LETTERS. He will create emotions against language, for the
                   pleasure of the tongue.
          	It consists of teaching that letters have a destination
		   other than words.
ISOU            Will unmake words into their letters.
                Each poet will integrate everything into Everything
                Everything must be revealed by letters.
POETRY CAN NO LONGER BE REMADE.

ISIDORE ISOU IS STARTING
     A NEW VEIN OF LYRICISM.
           Anyone who can not leave words behind can stay back with them!




C Innovation II: The Order of Letters 

This does not mean    destroying words for other words.
               	      Nor forging notions to specify their nuances.
                      Nor mixing terms to make them hold more meaning.
But it does mean      TAKING ALL LETTERS AS A WHOLE; UNFOLDING BEFORE DAZZLED
               		SPECTATORS MARVELS CREATED FROM LETTERS (DEBRIS FROM 
			THE DESTRUCTION);
               	      CREATING AN ARCHITECTURE OF LETTRIC RHYTHMS; 
		      ACCUMULATING FLUCTUATING LETTERS IN A PRECISE FRAME; 
		      ELABORATING SPLENDIDLY THE CUSTOMARY COOING; 
		      COAGULATING THE CRUMBS OF LETTERS FOR A REAL MEAL; 
		      RESUSCITATING THE JUMBLE IN A DENSER ORDER;
               	      MAKING UNDERSTANDABLE AND TANGIBLE THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE 
		        AND VAGUE; CONCRETIZING SILENCE;
                        WRITING THE NOTHINGNESS.
It is                 the role of the poet to advance toward subversive 
                      sources.
                      the obligation of the poet to advance in the black and 
		      burdened depths of the unknown.
                      the craft of the poet to open one more treasure-room 
		      door for the common man.
There will be a poet's message in new signs.  The ordering of letters is called:
            LETTERISM.
      It is not a poetic school, but a solitary attitude.
      AT THIS MOMENT: LETTERISM = ISIDORE ISOU.
      Isou is awaiting his successors in poetry!
      (Do they already exist somewhere, ready to burst forth into history 
      through books?)
EXCUSES FOR WORDS INTRODUCED INTO LITERATURE
      There are things which are existent only in the strength of their name.
      there are others which exist, but lacking a name are unacknowledged.
            Every idea needs a calling card to make itself known.
            Ideas are known by the name of their creator.
      It is more objective to name them after themselves.
            LETTERISM IS AN IDEA THAT
            WILL BE LAMENTED BY ITS REPUTATION
      Letterics is a material that can always be demonstrated. 
      Letterics seeds already existing:
            NONSENSE WORDS;
            WORDS WITH HIDDEN MEANINGS IN THEIR LETTERS;
            ONOMATOPOEIAS.
      If this material existed before, it didn't have a name to recognize it by. 
      Letterics works will be those made entirely out of this element, but with
            suitable rules and genres!
      The word exists and has the right to perpetuate itself.
      ISOU IS CALLING ATTENTION TO ITS EXISTENCE.
      It is up to the Letterist to develop Letterism. 
            Letterism is offering a DIFFERENT poetry.
            LETTERISM imposes a NEW POETRY. 

            THE LETTERIC AVALANCHE IS ANNOUNCED.