Contemporary Brazilian poetry occupies one of those interesting post-revolution free spaces where anything can happen.
After the poetic products of the military dictatorship and the national identity-searching, and the Tropicalia movement, contemporary Brazilian poetry had an opportunity to be apolitical for once, which was a sort of freedom in it of itself. And then, came three Brazilian poets who are doing big things, redefining “the terms of the poetic and the political,” and not only can you read about their respective points on the Brazilian poetry timeline, you can experience their poetry firsthand. Read about it here!
