The article is devoted to the analysis of the structure-forming principles of Yu. Levitansky’s book of poems “Cinematograph” in the aspect of the fragment poetics. It analyzes how influence the genre of“book of poems” influences reader’s reception, the semiotic tension between linearity and discreteness of the text, the role of the metatextual component, the linguo-poetical braces of a book. The author postulates that the cinematic principle of montage of fragments, revealing the “Cinematograph” title metaphor, serves as a basic text-generating mechanism covering both the “upper” (thematic) and “lower” (poeticlanguage) levels of the text.