Book, Anticritic, O[LS]

First published in 1986 and now in a new edition, O anticriticism proves the rigor and originality of one of the founders of concrete poetry in Brazil. How to classify this book by Augusto de Campos? Poetry-criticism? Poetry-criticism? Criticism of criticism? Whatever the definition, Dante, Donne, Gregório de Matos, E. Fitzgerald, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Gertrude Stein, Duchamp, John Cage, among others, are reconverted here in a new, anti-academic language, and reviewed from a non-academic perspective. conventional. The poets are revived in versions in which the refinements and rigors of art-translation are imposed. Selective, personalized translation, whose aesthetic and soulful values ​​of the original texts are recreated in Portuguese, in an operation that is both critical and poetic.