“Abre-te, cérebro!” As multifaces da poética de Arnaldo Antunes

Abstract

Experimentation: word that best sums up the writing of Arnaldo Antunes. The poet figures in the Brazilian art scene as a multifaceted author: singer, songwriter, artist, poet. Since we believe his productions have important relevance in the contemporary literary scene, while his writing conserves features which link that one to the Vanguard and Post-Vanguard movements, our research purposes to map the possible influences which draw close the author's poetry to some characteristics seen from the Brazilian Modernism on, passing through its relationship with the Concrete Poetry, through Tropicalismo and Marginal Poetry. Nevertheless, we do not intend to classify him as a disciple of those movements. By analyzing poems extracted from his first three books - Psia, Tudos and As coisas - we will try to show, in addition to such aspects, how the author combines peculiarities of his arts, the use of new technologies aiming a poetry where the reader must intervene, reaching a playfully multifaceted result.