Poetry is a trench of war

Abstract

The text seeks to explore, through the reading of some essays from Paulo Leminski and manifestos from Roberto Piva, the ideia that contemporary poetry assumes a position of war trench. In texts such as “Arte inútil, arte livre” and “O inutensílio”, Leminski defends the fact that poetry resists to marketing world precisely for being an object deprived of practical utility; thus its importance. In his instead, Piva, in poetry as in the series of manifestos sparsely published through his life, presents the reader with the practice of a poetic of transgression, which works as a form of resistance to the institutionalization of life.

Keywords

• paulo leminski
• roberto piva
• poesia brasileira
• trincheira