Escritas que convergem: a ressonância poética entre Haroldo de Campos e Herberto Helder

Abstract

The objective is to demonstrate how the writings of Herbert Helder and Haroldo de Campos converge and resonate with each other both historically and poetically. The historic convergence of Haroldo de Campos and Herbert Helder occurs, more precisely, in the historical contexts of the Brazilian Concrete Poetry and Experimental Portuguese Poetry, between the fifties, sixties and seventies. In this context, are important references the magazines Poesia Experimental: 1º caderno antológico (1964), Poesia Experimental: 2º caderno antológico (1966) and the book Antologia da Poesia Concreta em Portugal (1977), in which are poems published of both Haroldo de Campos - a book fragment of Galáxias (1984), "começo aqui" - and Herbert Helder - the poem " Ascenção dos Hipopótamos " and a book fragment of A máquina de emaranhar paisagens (1963). From this cut, we will take as analysis objects the books Galáxias, from Haroldo de Campos, and A máquina de emaranhar paisagens, from Herberto Helder. The writing of the first fragment of Galáxias date from 1963, which is the same year A máquina de emaranhar paisagens was published. Thus, the poetic convergence occurs in the relation between Translation and Anthropophagy designed as equivalent processes of appropriation and devouring of one, in the poetic and translational works of both authors.