Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil / Antonio Sergio Bessa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bessa, Antonio Sergio, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Fordham University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessas account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. These include their unprecedented reevaluation of Brazilian literary history, their distinctive exploration of graphic space inspired by emerging studies on cybernetics, and their embrace of a range of Modernist traditions, from Mallarmes vision of poetry as a constellation of words, to Joyces concept of the verbivocovisual, to Pounds writings about the Chinese ideogram. Bessas account begins with the core traits of concrete poetry developed by the Noigandres poets throughout the 1950s (the so-called heroic phase of concretism) and continues to the poetic experiments the group undertook after the military coup of 1964 in Brazil. The book concludes with translations of key primary texts: essays by the poets Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari and Haroldo de Campos and correspondence between the three poets and Ezra Pound.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Word as Object

2 Sound as Subject

3 Mechanics of Composition

4 Poetics of the Unpoetic

5 Disruption of Style

6 Poetry and Modernity in the New World

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1: The Noigandres / Ezra Pound Correspondence

Appendix 2: Deciphering Semiotics, by Decio Pignatari

Appendix 3: Pound Made (New) in Brazil, by Augusto de Campos

Appendix 4: The Aphfreudisiac Lacan in the Galaxy of Lalangue, by Haroldo de Campos

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed March 30 2026)

ISBN:

9781531513702

9781531513696