Silva freire and the poetics of matrix-words: resonances of the process//poem

Abstract

Silva Freire watched the development of poetic avant-gardes in the 60s and 70s: Concretism, Intensivism and the Process//Poem. Although the poet did not orthodoxly follow any of them, his works reinterpreted some formal experiments of these movements. For example, there are many studies showing how aesthetical assumptions of Concretism and Intensivism reverberate in Freire’s writings, mainly in the construction of “poetic blocks”. However, little has been said about how the poetic avant-gardes influenced another rhetoric procedure used by the poet: the “matrix-words”. Considering this gap, this paper analyzes to what extent Freire’s matrix works are in accordance to the assumptions of the Process//Poem.