Otherness of poetry

elements for a contemporary poetic criticism in Brazil

Abstract

This article proposes a study of some elements brought by active researchers from Brazilian universities for the development of contemporary critical thinking on poetry. Perspectives such as the address of the poem, its multiple voices and gestures (chorality, theatricality), its relationship to otherness, of which the “feminine” constitutes one of the key figures, will thus be revisited here in order to exploit a paradoxical pensiveness, present in poetic or “post-poetic” practices of Brazilian poetry which challenge us today and which cause poetry to drift towards a productive tension with its others: other artistic languages and other instances of production and reception which will be summoned in the process. The study involves some critical works on poetry published in Brazil between the years 2015 and 2022, read in the diversity of their own theoretical references, accompanied by some propositions which join a thought on poetry and a thought on thought itself, as those of Michel Deguy and Jacques Derrida.