Based on a reading of “Text 1”, from the series Antropofagias, written in 1971 in Angola, I intend to understand how the inaugural text of the series reveals aspects of the Helderian poetics as a whole. The Portuguese poet's choice for a reclusive life, preceded by his avoidance of interviews and public appearances in general, puts his work, his corpus, in the foreground. His absent figure changed significantly the way he is read since he only puts his textual body in the foreground, in a process of desubjectivation that confers less importance to the authoral dimension. In “Text 1”, Herberto Helder uses procedures such as the evocation of the body, the reader’s centrality, the relation between poetry and other arts – particularly cinema. T...