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| | U B U W E B :: Isidore Isou |
 | | According to Isidore Isou there exists a poetic evolution which, from Baudelaire to Tzara, involves a constant deepening and reduction of the poetic material, from the poem to the phrase, from the phrase to the word, from the word to the phoneme, from the phoneme to the syllable, to the alphabetic letter. |
 | | Nevertheless, the lettristes, Isou and Lemaître especially, succeeded in composing phonic poems which are not to be ignored - "car le lettrisme - poésie, musique, peinture - est un tout et un trust. |
 | | Isidore Isou, born in 1925 at Botosani, Rumania, is the founder of the lettriste movement. |
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