This essay aims to observe Manuel António Pina’s poetic works in the dual confrontation of the modernist/postmodernist contexts. Some of the metapoetic topics relevant to this author's works are: the awareness that we have come late to literature, that everything has already been written, and yet it is impossible for the poet to be silent, and the perception of poetry as revolution/revelation with/against the plurality of the self. --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2019n27a591
