Paulo Leminski, from São Paulo Concretism to the Post-Haiku

Authors

  • Mario Camara Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

Brazil, concrete poetry, haiku, experimentation, experience

Abstract

In this essay, I examine part of the work of the Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski. From an analysis of his first poems, I define his differences from São Paulo’s concrete poets and demonstrate how Leminski developed a poetic project inspired by the genre of haikai. The "post-haiku" allowed Leminski to articulate a tradition of formal compositional rigor and the idea of poetry as experience.

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Published

2020-05-28

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020): Special Dossier: Legacies of Concrete Aesthetics

Section

Special Dossier

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