Аннотация:The article addresses the practices of working with sound and verbal magic in Russianneo-avant-garde poetry after the Second World War and in contemporary poetry. Largelythrough the medium of Paul Celan, the idea of splitting (decomposing) the word returnsto Russian poetry after a long totalitarian break (“loss of speech”) in the texts of GennadyAygi and Elizaveta Mnatsakanova. Aygi and Mnatsakanova share, among other things,a sensitive attitude to the musicality of verse, which guarantees the unity of linguistic matter, despite the fragmentation and logical incoherence of its elements. Similar techniquesare typical for such “musically oriented” contemporary poets as Larisa Berezovchuk, Sergey Zavialov and Anna Alchuk.