TRAMVAI

I love the scores Forunato Depero creates for his poetry.  "Tramvai" is a beautiful example.  I appreciate the way he seems to apply al these levels of logic to help inform the way it should be read.  The page is broken up into strangely framed sections, and decorated with a wide variety of typefaces filling up the space.  No one type face seems to be used more than once, suggesting that each phrase of the poem should be given its own unique character. The type is quite expressive too.  Some of it is set at a large scale, and feel strong and deep. Some type is set small and repeats like a pattern, and suggests a sort of chanting or rhythm.  Some words grow in scale by each character to suggest the word crescendos as it's spoken.  The aliqgnment is all over the place too. One line it will be left justified, and the next it will be centered or right justified.  In the poem "Verbalizzazione astratta di Singora" the allignment is realy strange.  Words are set vertically, with only one two each line, and it creates a strange sense of ordered columns.  he also sets type that is read vertically.  It is funny that for a page so packed with different connotations that is articulating non-sensical words, the score still feels like it sticks to a unique and carefully crafted logic.