An essay is presented on Letterism and Metagraphy founder Ioan-Isidor Goldstein who is also known as Isodore Isou. It profiles Isou who is a writer and thinker focusing on human knowledge including letters and arts. It illustrates how Isou's reputation as an intellectual is different from intellectual and literary movements from 1945 to 1970. It also discusses Isou's originality regarding a view of what poetry looked like on a page and the meanings that may be created with the forms.