What i've been doing so far, is reading cubist poetry by Pierre Reverdy, who is considered one of the most appreciated and best known cubist poets.
On Reverdy: (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/pierre-reverdy)
His early work showed the definite influence of cubism and surrealism. His poems were short and fragmentary with a sharp visual appearance which was compatible with the cubist feel for plastic values. The loneliness and spiritual apprehension which ran through his poetry attracted the surrealists. Despite this influence by both modes of thought, Reverdy remained independent: he searched for something other than the goals of cubism or surrealism. He endeavored to find "the sublime simplicity of true reality." His writing became more mystical and attempted to delve beneath outward appearances to discover the concealed truth.
He seeked, as all cubists did, to present the spectator with a little organism that will take up all experience brought to it, digest it, reorganize it and return it as the aesthetic experience, unadulterated. All works do this. Artists like Revery or Juan Gris sought to do it with minimum interference. When they were successful, their artifacts were peculiarly indestructible.
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