Other bodies, other speeches: The characther of the buffoon as a tool for reading marginal poetry

Abstract

Brazilian marginal poetry often has been read from a framework that is based on aesthetical concepts that are incompatible with its production. In this sense, it’s very common that literary critics identify most regularly what this poetry lacks, instead of understanding positively its proposals. No wonder how it came to be described as an incoherent amount of poetics, because there’s no program in it so it could be recognized as a movement, or as a romantic aspiration with no critical
thinking regarding language and poetry. Here, we try to propose through the use of the character of the buffoon as a reading tool another point of view to understand
marginal poetry.