Towards a marginal means: Mário de Andrade’s question and Oswald de Andrade’s solutions in Cacaso’s poetics

Abstract

The relationship between the so-called “marginal” poetry and the modernist poetry of 1922 is a frequent cliché within the small but prolific critical reception of the poets of the 1970s. The purpose of the article that follows is to establish what is actually modernist in the poetry of the 1970s. We adopt the relationship between Cacaso’s criticism and poetry on the side of “marginal” poetry, and the aesthetics of Mario de Andrade and Oswald de Andrade on the modernist side, to point out the similarities and differences between the “marginal” and the modernists.

Keywords:
Cacaso; marginal poetry; poetics