Abstract
This essay aims at studying the modernist poetry produced in Pernambuco in the 1920s, focusing on the diversity of centers of cultural production in Brazil. The paper also seeks to spark a debate about the poem outside the book, in view of the disproportional relationship between the book form and the other poetic spaces in literary history. To this aim, the paper examines the literary impact and the aesthetic value of Joaquim Inojosa’s “Bailado Rubro das Chamas”, Manuel Bandeira’s “Evocação do Recife”, and Benedito Monteiro’s “Knockout…” and “Poema da Bolsa”. The relationship between these texts and their context highlights and legitimizes the heterogeneity of the milieu in which Brazilian modernism evolved and, at the same time, affords a complex approach both to the notion of modernism and to that of Brazilian literature.
Keywords:
modernism in pernambucano; modernist poetry; Joaquim Inojosa; Manuel Bandeira; Benedito Monteiro