Poesia verbalista urbana: poética e política no Rio de Janeiro dos anos 1980

Abstract

This work was structured through textual analysis and historical and critical reconstruction of the role of oral poetry in public spaces in public spaces, within the process that became commonly known as the “Brazilian redemocratization” of the 1980s, always aiming to appreciate the various relationships established, in this period, between poetry and politics. These analyzes, in principle, focus on a panoramic and critical review of the main movements and groups active in brazilian literature, from the 1950s to the moment here brought into focus, showing how artistic processes were linked, with precedents influencing the that occurred afterwards. With a greater level of detail, the work emphasises performance of some of the main poetic collectives of Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s, giving total priority to those who promoted events on the streets or in any other spaces open to the general public. Within an even more in-depth study of cases, the author tries to focus on three urban poetic movements that are quite symbolic and became very well known: the “Fair of independent poetry”, which acted purposefully in the largest political debate center in Rio de Janeiro at the time (and of today) - Cinelândia, the “Pass in the square that poetry embraces you”, an event that, being itinerant, ran through several squares of Rio de Janeiro weekly, taking poetry, theater, music and other arts to all regions of the state, mainly to called peripheral areas of Rio de Janeiro and the “Porn Art Movement”, which calls itself to this day as the “last avant-garde movement in literature and the arts in general in Brazilian lands”. Eighteenth-century porn artists sought, through performances, that mixed nudity with oralized poetry, to show that literature needed to get out of its condition of sacredness and hermeticism to be in the middle of everyone who wanted to take it for themselves. With all this, the eighteenth-century verbalist poets not only acted extensively in the process of resuming democracy in Brazil, after a long dictatorship of 21 years, but they were also able to promote the popularization and de-eliteization of the poet and his artistic work, poetry