Visuality, voice and thought in Lu Menezes's poetry

Abstract

Part of contemporary artistic activity (probably the most interesting part), including the work of criticism and recent philosophy, take visuality and voice as a puzzle. Lu Menezes develops her poetry within the field delimited by these assumptions of obscurity and uncertainty that haunt both our perception and our representation of the world. Despite the challenge of working with such evanescent categories, this irreducible indeterminacy that contemporary poetry has to deal with offers rich and complex possibilities of reorganization of experience. This article seeks to explore the place created by Menezes’s work, in which the problematization of visuality and voice inspires a simultaneously friendly and sophisticated diction which perceives the world inseparably from the textual articulations it invents.