A POESIA “SEM NOVOS SECRETOS DENTES” DE TORQUATO NETO

Abstract

The article shows Torquato Neto's poetics as one that, between the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, appropriated Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagy as a creative methodology that allowed him to swallow the symbol of the European vampire, giving rise to a language capable of vampirize texts by other authors, developing a reflection on the common. The objective is to elucidate the importance of this critical and parodistic way of writing contemporary poetry. Through the ideas of anthropophagy, the common and the relationships between evil and literature, Torquato Neto's defense of a language that would not be hostage to sources and influences or exemplarity is exposed. Understanding the poet's poetry as the new non-original that Perloff (2013) speaks of, it is concluded that Torquato Neto's poetry managed to cross the ages, face the censorship of the dictatorship, while remaining contemporary.

Keywords: Contemporary poetry, anthropophagy, vampire poetics,