Crossing and dilemma: the modernist tradition in Sebastião Uchoa Leite´s poetry

Abstract

Sebastião Uchoa´s work is circumscribed in a field of tension with tradition, whick makes impossible is delimitation to anyone who seeks to draw his poetic profile. The undeniable identification with the modernist masters does not mean the enhancement of such standards; on the contrary, they are contaminated by the crossing of the most diverse references. The ambiguity comes from the fact that the poet neither puts limits in a temporal-spaced territory, nor sets defined directions. His is a hybrid textual project, as in a crossing, wich the nomad route places, side by side, the referring speeches from tradition and from the contemporary world.