A definir
Poetry; Contemporary; Political; Infiltration; Contamination; Alterities; Forms of Existences.
The doctoral thesis in question deals with the poetic production of the teacher and poet
Alberto Pucheu. Introducing himself in the Brazilian literary scene in the 1990s, Pucheu
published his first book Na cidade aberta, in 1993, and currently culminates with É
chegado o tempo de voltar à superfície, recently released in 2022. A professor of literary
theory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), his writing project is
characterized by the implosion of the traditional concept of poetry, especially when his
poetic texts open themselves to an intense contamination with the imposing reality and
the dirtiness of the world, not shying away from touching on the sociopolitical problems
of the present time. Moreover, his poems are traversed by an infiltration of lives whose
motricity grounds minimal forms of existence. This study focuses mainly on the works
from 2013 to 2020, namely: Mais cotidiano que o cotidiano (2013), Para que poetas em
tempos de terrorismos? (2017), Vidas rasteiras (2020). Based on the modes of action of
Pucheutean poetry - political, aesthetic, and ethical - we raise the following question: in
what way does the poetry of the now, amidst a whirlwind of events in our time, not shy
away from being contaminated with such reality? If the poetic texts provide
experimentation with the contemporary, how does this encounter take place? Through
what movements does Pucheu's poetry collide with the impasses of contemporaneity?
Thus, through the concept of "contemporary", by Agamben (2009), of "nonspecificity of
contemporary aesthetics", by Garramuño (2014), of "sharing of the sensitive", by
Rancière (2009), of "forms of existences", by Lapoujade (2017), to name a few, we
analyze how Pucheutean poetry reconfigures the sensitive, going to meet the alterities and
instaurating other possibilities of existences. By disposing himself to the other, the poet
never tires of "coming out of himself" (COLLOT, 2004), which makes the poem a space
of burrow, of trench, of host, of passage of intensities. If we are amazed by the everyday
surface, we are also amazed by the literary text, both because it allows us to reflect and
invent the space of the other, our condition of dehumanization, ways of questioning the
already established, of producing good encounters beyond the world's amnesia.