The Translinguistic Collaborative Poetry of Serge Segay, Rea Nikonova, and John M. Bennett

How do three poets working in different languages collaborate and create poetry? This article discusses Zaum and transrationalist focus on processes and forms rather than on social myths. In the case of these three poets, those forms involve translinguistic and visual language structures, and the creation of totemic linguistic artifacts. To read such work, one must first experience it through a supreme suspension of disbelief, and then one may rationally consider that experience. Collaboration is especially apt for this transrationalist approach, in that it is in a sense “egoless”, and transcends the social being that is formed by our everyday individualistic rational mind. Includes samples of the work, and a complete bibliography of the three poets' collaborative monographic publications.