Sebastião Uchoa Leite: Faces of a Poetic Path

Abstract

This study proposes an investigative itinerary through part of Sebastião Uchoa Leite's poetic work, grounded in the books Dez sonetos sem matéria, Dez exercícios numa mesa sobre o tempo e o espaço, Signo/Gnosis e outros, Antilogia, Isso não é aquilo and Cortes/Toques, collected later in Obras em dobras (1989). For this purpose, an interpretative reading of certain poems and an analysis of the poetic faces of the writer are developed, which made possible the perception of the transformations of style, tone, motives, from the sonnetistic dimension of the initial productions to the inflection with the encounter with the concretes, the critical attack on the lyrical similes and metaphors, and the particular appropriation of certain forms of pop culture and irony. For the examination of this trajectory, it was important to turn to critics who dedicated themselves to his work, aiming at a greater understanding about the participation of Uchoa Leite’s poetic word in contemporary brazilian literature.