Waldo Motta’s bloody poetry: Melancholy and disenchantment in peripheral marginality

Abstract

This article surveys the key issues that underpin the production of Waldo Motta’s poetry, since its appearance in marginal literature, the mimeograph, conducting his analysis, considering him a cursed writer since the genesis of his poetry. To do this, the author gives a short account of his historiographical work until the release of Bundo e outros poemas (1996), by Editora Unicamp, considered the ground zero which granted his work to be inserted on the editorial axis Rio-São Paulo. Proposing a reading of his trajectory and analyzing some of his poems in "Bundo" and "Waw", that make up the two parts of Bundo e outros poemas (1996), the author shows why Waldo Motta is considered a great marginal and cursed poet.