A legibilidade na leitura da poesia de Augusto de Campos como agente de (re)escrita

Abstract

In the introduction of Outro (2015) Augusto de Campos claims that “he came too late to a new world”. This is the natural answer to understand his fluency in virtual and digital scopes of creation. The persistent relation between “new and old” is revisited, tested and confronted all over Campos’ poe-tic corpus, in which we find him experimenting new ways of writing and reading through intermediality. This approach has taken advantage of mass media to proselytize the general public about the literary avant-garde, extending his presence from the periodical press to the internet and, particularly, to so-cial media networks. It is in this multimedia space that the intrinsic relationship of visual and material form with poetry is explored near its full potential, adding sound, visual and temporal elements to verse forms. This article aims to explore the relationship of legibility with the macro- and micro-typographic forms, and with the process of reading and re-writing the poem through these iterations. Readers are faced with an exploration of language which opens up the possibility of materializing the meaning of the text in the very process of interaction, exploration and reading of the poem (instead of making it verbally explicit), by means of an iterative process of cognitive nature.