Do verso ao vão: aspectos da negação em “O rei menos o reino” e “Não”, de Augusto de Campos

Abstract

Augusto de Campos is one of the most long-lived voices in Brazilian literature. In more than seventy years of poetic activity he produced books, objects, mobiles, holograms and sculptures. Since the early 1950s, Augusto has pursued a kind of negacion of the poetic, which we understand as propositional. The “no” in Campos can be seen as the backbone that brings together his work. Thus, we propose the reading of two poems by the author, “O rei menos o reino” and the photocopy book “Não” in order to understand how the negativity unfolds from the verse to its material reality.