Entre a perda e a queda poética: "Desterro", de Camila Assad, ou como construir colectividade a partir de uma 'escrita por apropriação'

Abstract

This article examines Camila Assad’s poetry book Desterro, published in 2019 by Editora Macondo. Departing from the polysemy that its title suggests, our analysis focuses on the three main axes articulated in Assad’s work: cities, women, and poems. First, we call attention to the role played by visual, spatial and oral marks in order to unpack a type of writing that seeks to build poems, as it builds cities, from a feminine perspective. Then, after reflecting on the writing techniques used by the author, we claim that through various processes of appropriation and transcreation, Assad organizes new collectivities while securing a place for her, as well as her predecessors, both in the literary realm and the public spheres. As an undisciplined, audacious, and playful work, Desterro proposes a literary journey that embraces the loss and fall of the poetic voice to ultimately attain a social body through the (explicit) assimilation of reading and listening practices.