Abstract
This article’s primary objective is to provide a historiographic overview of the periodical O Carioca, as well as to shed light on the development of contemporary Brazilian poetry in literary periodicals and poetic experimentations such as Chacal’s CEP 20.000. Both projects, O Carioca and CEP 20.000, were developed during the 1990s and evoke a poetics concentrated in the capital of Rio de Janeiro. However, the periodical only published five volumes, whereas CEP 20.000 continues to influence the cultural scene of the city today. Through questions of the contemporary, the literary market, poetry, life and national identity, this article analyzes the poetics of Chacal, one of the most prolific poets of his generation.
Keywords:
Chacal; O Carioca literary magazine; periodicals; contemporary Brazilian poetry