Book, All poetry (Leminski)[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Paulo Leminski was courageous enough to balance between two enormous constructions that rivaled each other in the 1970s, when he published his first verses: concrete poetry, with a more erudite and super-informed nature, and the lyrical poetry that flourished among young people in their early twenties. of the so-called “mimeograph generation”. By reconciling the rigidity of formal construction and the most genuine colloquialism, the author played a cat and mouse game with readers and critics throughout his life. If on the one hand he had full knowledge of the best poetry produced - from the West and the East -, on the other hand he seemed to take pleasure in showing an “at ease” that often bordered on improvisation, giving a knot to the heads of the most conservatives. Pure trickery of a conscious poet endowed with the best tools to write verses. Between his debut in poetry, in 1976, and his death, in 1989, a few months before turning 45, Leminski would occupy a unique border zone in contemporary Brazilian poetry, through which the erudite and pop, ultra-concentrated and more prosaic material. Not surprisingly, one of the happiest titles in his bibliography is Caprichos & relaxos: a formula and a poetic program masterfully encapsulated. This volume covers, for the first time, the complete poetic trajectory of the author from Curitiba, master of lapidary verse and cunning. Books that are now classics such as Distraídos venuemos and La vie en close, as well as rarities such as Quarenta clics em Curitiba and verses already out of print are now once again available to readers, with unprecedented editorial care. The haiku, the concrete poetry, the Oswaldian joke-poem, the slogan and the song - nothing seems to have escaped the “trickster samurai”, who demonstrates, with beauty and vigor, why he has been one of the most read and celebrated Brazilian poets of all time. recent decades. With a presentation by the poet (and her companion for two decades) Alice Ruiz S, afterword by critic and composer José Miguel Wisnik, and an appendix that brings together texts by, among others, Caetano Veloso, Haroldo de Campos and Leyla Perrone-Moisés, Toda Poesia It's a real adventure - for intelligence and sensitivity.