Moinho de versos leminskianos

Abstract

The wish to transform each gesture into poetry was one of the most significant ambitions in Paulo Leminski s poetry, which rendered him acknowledgment for the plurality in writing. The value of his work can be expressed by the articulation of the verses with different languages and with different media. The main objects of analysis in this paper are Caprichos e relaxos (1983), Quarenta clics em Curitiba (1990) and Winterverno (2001). The purpose is to demonstrate the diversity of media and poetic strategies used by Leminski. The principal theoretical and critical perspectives used are: Augusto e Haroldo de Campos (2006) as to the incorporation of the main principles of the theory of concrete poetry of the noigrandes group in Leminsk s writing; Italo Calvino (2007) as to the reflection on the importance of the category of images for the literature in this millennium; Philadelpho Menezes (1991) as to the understanding of the poetic phenomenon as the articulation among languages; Glauco Mattoso (1981) and Samira Youssef Campedelli (1995) as to the notion of marginal poetry and as to the different forms of circulation of Leminsk s poetry, respectively.