Haroldo de Campos: Innovative Poetics for a Plural World

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- Cisneros, Odile
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. is it possible to think of a writer whose work might bring together not only East and West but also Antiquity and contemporary times under the sign of a plural poetics of invention? This project proposes a reading of the work of the eminent Brazilian poet, critic, and translator Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) as precisely such a figure. Widely considered one of the most influential poets and intellectuals to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, he became internationally recognized as a founder of the concrete poetry vanguard in the 1950s. His prolific subsequent oeuvre---over 40 books of poetry, criticism, and translation---spans the literature of the world, from China and Japan to Europe, North and South America, and from ancient Chinese poetry, Homer, and the Bible to Russian Futurism, Anglo-American modernism, and the avant-gardes. Through an ambitious examination of the scope and depth of Campos's critical and creative work, including essays, poetry, and translation, this proposal aims to shed light on his unique poetics of innovation for a plural world.
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2020-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-xktg-qp57