Poetry in the Expanded Field: A Reading of Sabonete Pôncio Pilatos, by Diego Dourado

Abstract

This article aims to read a contemporary poem that features dialogues between languages, expanding the poetical field. The chosen work, Sabonete Pôncio Pilatos, by the Brazilian poet Diego Dourado, can be thought of as an poem-object, a performance, conceptual poetry, or an expanded poem, among other temporary and insufficient categories. Located at the intersection between poetry and the visual arts, the work establishes relations between the context of its production and the modes of its circulation, inviting a reading of its face-to-face and inter-art character that calls on us to reflect on the relationship between the material choices in composition and the political reverberations of those choices.

Keywords:
expanded poetry; Diego Dourado; materialities; inter-art works