Abstract

Is the substantiation of mass media and electronic technology as cornerstones of contemporary existence worldwide antithetical to lyric or a source of revitalization? Can one be at once more oneself and more a national being through poetic appeals to the selves and signs of potent Others and their locations in the same hemisphere? Do poets feel that they truly expand the reach of their craft by using non-print vehicles, by composing in different languages, or by redefining spaces in relation to alternate territories? Can poems open fresh perspectives on the experience of cybernetic environments? Is the perception of place and changes it undergoes a topic for all genres of present-day literature? Such are the questions that motivate this study of threads of poetry in Brazil in the context of the Americas, especially in relation to the United States. Both historical and on-going connections in lyric between the two countries of continental proportions enfold not only national languages and letters per se, but tourism, film, music, and other aspects

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