Thermodynamics of the poetic act: modulations of the (end of) poem in the lost decade

Abstract

Observing the transformations of the literary field occurred during the 1980s, the article searches for some of the initial inflections in the contemporary debate on the verse’s situation and its relationship with prose, at a time of lost discursive ballast (Provase) and of crisis in the poetic genres delimitations. To this end, two poetics are analyzed, that of Paulo Leminski’s and that of Sebastião Uchoa Leite, both of which were unfolded during the socalled lost decade and having with different consequences to three interconnected questions: a) the status of equivocity and of the poetic modulation with regard to the societies of control’s fluidity (Deleuze) and to the presentist historicity (Hartog); b) the artistic sovereignty and its specific performance in the hypersemiotized public sphere of the Brazilian redemocratization; c) the initial steps of the approximation between poetry and ecology dilemmas, as it is legible in the thermodynamics of literary enunciation, that is, in their different practices of equivocation and modulation of bodies, materials and languages.