Visões e interseções: uma proposta de leitura da Poesia Concreta

Abstract

This article aims to establish the possibility of a critical analysis of Poesia Concreta as an innovative phenomenon that recovers the initial proposal of Brazilian Modernism, especially with regard to the original legacy contained in the poetry of Oswald de Andrade. Thus, it is necessary to reflect on the exhaustion related to the unfolding of modernist activity, since Brazilian postwar poetry reaches a degree of conservatism opposed to the radicality of Poesia Concreta as an expression of the spatiality of the poem that opposes idea of traditional verse. In view of this position, his trajectory finds the opposition of the group gathered around the Revista Violão Rua, which uses only the rhetorical resources of a politicized poetry that despises the innovative forms of the artistic avant-garde. On the other hand, the incorporation of poetry by mass culture results in the proposal of Tropicalism, which brings to the media an aesthetic project with which Concrete Poetry is refined. This is one of the most innovative movements that may have existed during the 20th century involving popular music and avantgarde literary creation in Brazil.