Tipografia expressiva: Augusto de Campos e os desenhos da poesia

Abstract

This research aims to map some of the ways letters design become structural constituent, by means of an expressive use of printing configuration, that is, through a skillful arrangement of printing elements, and, sometimes, by the determiners from Augusto de Campos s expressiveness of poems. To accomplish this study, it is relevant to do, before the analysis, a historical-conceptual contextualized path of printing as well as its implications with the ideogram conception, understood according to Ernest Fenollosa, via Ezra Pound. This printing route is found in Augusto s work from his first books (we can call this production as pre-concrete) to his definitely concrete poems, reaching his most recent production, which allows us a coherent glimpse and, at the same time, a rare mobility on Brazilian literature.