Poética da recorrência: poesia, memória e plasticidade em Ferreira Gullar

Abstract

We intend to do a critical reading of Ferreira Gullar’s poetry, starting from A luta corporal (1954), considered to be his first book, to Em alguma parte alguma (2010). We will take into account some aspects of his writing that indicate a poetic style that uses traces of memory through recurring themes and images. In addition, we will highlight the use of elements of the visual arts field in the composition of poems, nearing the poet’s function to the experience of the art critic – activity also performed by Gullar. Always shifting between different possibilities of being, between the universal and the particular, between the poet and the common man, Ferreira Gullar, poet from Maranhão, has notorious participation in Brazilian literature with significant publications both in poetry and in the critical field of visual arts, since 1950. Here, we are interested in understand Ferreira Gullar’s poetry through the critical reading of his poems and his poetic discourse, emphasizing the elements that compose a poetry of recurrence.