Poetry is a trench of war

Abstract

The text seeks to explore, through the reading of some essays from
Paulo Leminski and manifestos from Roberto Piva, the ideia that contemporary
poetry assumes a position of war trench. In texts such as “Arte inútil, arte
livre” and “O inutensílio”, Leminski defends the fact that poetry resists to
marketing world precisely for being an object deprived of practical utility;
thus its importance. In his instead, Piva, in poetry as in the series of manifestos
sparsely published through his life, presents the reader with the practice
of a poetic of transgression, which works as a form of resistance to the
institutionalization of life.