A lírica escura de Luís Quintais

Abstract

This paper aims to introduce the poetics of Luís Quintais, one of the strongest voices of contemporary Portuguese poetry, in its catastrophic aspect, ie, the ways in which Western contemporary subject figures the world where they live, with the perspective that everything tends to ruin and disappearance. In the Portuguese poetry, previously, a voice had already worked this wire of social ruin, Carlos de Oliveira. In our present time, the Portuguese contemporary poets, each in their own way, say this ruined space of life, but it is Luís Quintais who points more anthropologically the existence on the brink, that's why we speak of a « lyrical dark », image present in his poetry.

Keywords

• contemporary poetry
• Quintais Luís
• Portuguese poetry
• catastrophe