Concrete Poetry: the Case of Augusto de Campos

The dissertation is divided into sevenparts. The opening part is about the phenomenon of the experimental poetry in general. The second one describes the historical background, the roots of the experimental poetry in Brazil. The third part is devoted to a poet group Noigandres - I write about its foundation and bring a brief synopsis of the editing of the magazin-book noigandres. Main body of my work is about the creative activity of a brazilian poet Augusto de Campos as is summoned in a compilation Hail to the shout (VIVA VAIA Poetry 1949-1979). I focus on his first book of a concrete poetry without a poet (poetamenos, 1953) which presents a new way of organizing the words on a page and the book Bestiarium (Bestiário, 1955) in which appears a transformation of a lyrical subject. From the original point, where the poet expresses himself through the fragments of text, to the point where the poet defines himself through his absence as a situation lyrical subject. He calls himself a designer, who designs/casts the structure of a poem, like in "Tension" (Tensão) analyzed in this dissertation. In 60's the poet gets more interested in a political and performs so-called step of participation (salto participante) - he exploits the form of a montage and a collage to create an immediate and direct impact on..