This article aims to recognize the work of paraense poet Bruno de Menezes as forecasting of the concepts of blackness and creoulezation, these concepts created by Aimé Cesaire and Edouard Glissant, which qualify the modernity of this paraense poet. Then we will be analyze poems from Bruno de Menezes wrote in his book called Batuque (1931), considering the style and both social/ historical production conditions. Conclusively, we highlight that the non-recognition of poetry from Menezes, in local and national canon, it was much more social factors problems than the quality of his work.
