“Dispensar o pensar”: a poética cosmogônica da peraltagem na obra de Manoel de Barros

Abstract

This study aims to experiment, in the poetry of Manoel de Barros, the cosmogonic poetics of foppery, a joke of the artist that enables him (and us) to advance to the beginning of everything, of our essence: the childhood. When Barros makes some poetry about childhood through childhood itself, as well as in mythology, he brings to life the first time of all things. The eternal originality of the poet’s "playful language" is present in his works Poeminhas em Língua de Brincar, Exercícios de Ser Criança, Cantigas por um passarinho à toa e Poeminhas pescados numa fala de João.In these poems, the play reigns and it is the disorder that organizes the plots – or the traps! The tricks with the language to the deform images enchant the reader – who, just like the poet, begins to miss what he was not.