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The article considers the basic principles of poetic text organization in the works of Russian Silver Age poets who belonged to Symbolism, Acmeism and Futurism movements in the light of Gasparov’s idea of “antinomics of the poetics of Russian modernism”. The comprehensive anthological projects of Balmont and Bryusov (“Calls of Antiquity” and “Dreams of Mankind”), author’s and collective translation anthologies that really embody the idea of antinomicity of verse poetics, are considered first. Then, the author’s books of translations and imitations of S. Sviridenko, Bozhidar, A. Tufanov, O. Cheremshanova and the translation principles used in the arrangement of poems by W. Whitman and E. Verharen are analyzed from this standpoint. The following is a brief overview of the ways of combining tradition and innovation in vers libre, new syllabics and Russian hexameter, as well as in ambivalent stanza forms: tercins, sonnet, triolet, sapphic stanza, gazelle, haiku and tanka, pantum; each of these versification forms in its own way expresses the idea of “omnipotence”, permeating the synthetic poetics of Russian modernism.