Photomaton & Vox: the construction of Herberto Helder’s poetics
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Herberto Helder, Contemporary Portuguese poetry, Poetics.Abstract
Herberto Helder is one of the most important Portuguese poets of the second half of the XX century and XXI century. His poetry marked by silence, body and metaphors about his own poetic making became recognized by his contemporaries and future generations of writers of prose and poetry. Published in 1979, for the first time, Photomaton & Vox, is a work that aligns fragments of essays texts and poems. Composed of comments, memorialistic and aesthetic experiences, the book has become a form of “hebertian” poetics, where we find different aspects that guide its writing. This paper uses singular essayists on the poet and on the poetic genre to analyze excerpts from Photomaton & Vox perceiving the characteristics that promote it as poetic and the importance of Herberto Helder for Portuguese poetry after Fernando Pessoa.References
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