13–10. Filippo Marinetti, “Montagne + Vallate + Strade x Joffre” (Mountains + Valleys + Streets x Joffre), foldout from Les mots en liberté futuristes

This poem “depicts” Marinetti’s journey, which included the war front (lower left), France (upper left), and a visit to Léger (top right). The futurist poets believed that the use of different sizes, weights, and styles of type allowed them to weld painting and poetry, because the intrinsic beauty of letterforms, manipulated creatively, transformed the printed page into a work of visual art.