Recent Trajectories of Brazilian Poetry

The essay provides an overview of principal tendencies in Brazilian poetry in the last couple of decades ranging from the avantgarde group of Concrete poetry from the 1950s—who bring into the aesthetic current the elements of social participation in the 1960s—to neo-Concretism and the movement for the engaged poetry to the so-called marginal poetry in subsequent period all the way to the poets who forged their own path. Futhermore, the importance of the journal Tempo Brasileiro from the 1970s is pointed out alongside with the most recent developments in the form of the poet-professor and women\u27s poetry. All these tendencies and currents are placed in a broader context of the developments of Brazilian poetry from the 1920s until our time