Poetry in transitional space (reflections about the Cacaso's grupo escolar)

Abstract

The main purpose of this work is to think about two poems of the book Grupo Escolar (1974) by Antônio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987), known inside the Brazilian cultural universe as Cacaso. Despite being the second book by Cacaso, Grupo Escolar was the fi rst to be published independently, in the traditional editorial system, through Frenesi, a poetry collection pro Rio de Janeiro. It is interesting to realize that this book demands from the author a new poetical lettering, in agreement with the “alchemist days”. By the analysis of the poems chosen – “O futuro já chegou” and “Aquarela” – it’s possible to see how they dialogue with the production moment, in different ways. Both can be read as symptoms of a traumatic reality. Although, if in the fi rst poem we face a reference poetry based on extreme literality and on “reality excess”, in the second we face the sense mixtures modulations of allegory.