“Zang Tumb Tumb is an extended sound poem by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published in nineteen fourteen. It is a book made with letterpress printing that is approximately eight inches tall by five inches wide. It is in portrait orientation, meaning that its shortest side runs parallel to the ground. Zang Tumb Tumb was Marinetti’s first published collection of parole in libertà (words in liberty), a form of poetry at the same time verbal and visual. The title Zang Tumb Tumb itself is an onomatopoeia that evokes the sounds of mechanized war—artillery shelling, bombs, explosions. The black letterpress text on the cover, which has yellowed with age, mimics the sounds they spell and portray. Beneath the initials and Marinett’s name in the top left corner, the words Zang Tumb Tumb appear off-kilter. They tilt upwards from the right as if about to catapult into the sky. Both the “”ZANG”” and “”TUMB TUMB”” are written in all caps. However, the “”ZANG”” is written in a slightly narrower text than the thick, bold letters of the TUMB TUMB which is written larger and takes up the width of the cover. At the exact center of the cover, “”Adrianople Ottobre 1912″” is written in a straight, level line with smaller, all capitalized letters. This text divides the cover in the middle, creating a top and bottom half. In the bottom half of the cover, the word TUMB is repeated again, this time with the letter U repeated three times, reading TUUUMB. After, it repeats again three more times, losing the letter B at its end. Each consecutive repetition appears smaller every time as they point downwards towards the bottom right corner of the cover. The result appears as if the text is disappearing off into the distance, reading Tuuum Tuuum Tuuum. “