Clay chronicles and contours of the peripheral place in Criolo and Sérgio Vaz

Abstract

The objective of the article is to analyze the peripheral place in Criolo's voices in the song “Não existe amor em SP” in dialogue with the book that touches on the verses “Literatura, pão e poesia: história de um povo lindo e inteligente”, by Sérgio Vaz, with emphasis on the chronicle “Mil graus na terra da garoa”. Putting emphasis on the writing interspersed with the verses produced by Vaz, memory emerges no less poetically in chronicles, which fertilize a self already known from and in the outskirts of São Paulo that reverberates, especially, in the spaces of the community and school in poetry workshops and soirées; flirting with another urban poet, who, beyond words, shares the rhythm and cadence of surviving in marginalized spaces, Criolo; and both guide the methodology of critical analysis of literary-song productions to which we focus our gaze. Such dialogues are examples of artistic hybridity that occur through language, the material for the realization of thought, and can be understood through the theoretical-critical contributions of Paulo Leminski (2011), when he reflects on the pleasure of language, while Charles A. Perrone ( 2008) contextualizes Brazilian song in interface with the poetic language conceived by Octavio Paz (2012), reflecting the sociological nuances in the words of Heloisa Buarque de Holanda (2020) about the limits of the periphery. Anchored in these biases, we recognize the authors, their voices and echoes of (r)existence in the projection of places that were environments of birth, identity and struggle of invisible bodies, in the ambivalence of the language that resizes the place in exchange with the urban center and its contours, which make poetry sustainable food for subjects impoverished by society.