O grito do 'griot' e o serviço da palavra: declamação e oratória na poesia de Abdias do Nascimento

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the relationship between poetry and prose in the works of Abdias Nascimento. The analysis focuses on some audio recordings made by the author months before the publication of Axés do Sangue e da Esperança. (Orikis), his first book of poetry. Those readings stress some discursive and colloquial core aspects of his poems. Neither prose poems nor poetic prose, the recorded readings place the poems between one form and other, creating a sort of oratory poetry that, through declamation, takes part in both poetry and prose values.