Although better known today for its contribution to the visual arts, Italian Futurism was in fact founded and led by a poet - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The many writers who gravitated toward the movement went on to produce a body of work that was as groundbreaking as that of its painters. Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry charts the distinct phases through which Futurist poetry passed, with a particular focus on those forms of experimentation that reflected the movement’s desire to “redouble the expressive force of words” by emphasising and exploiting the visual and/or sonic dimensions of language.