Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of Adília Lopes’ poetry, arguing how the act of reading, from the perspective of the contemporary archive, deconstructs the original meanings to create new textual events. In Adília’s rewriting processes, the appropriation and deviation practices of archives that reveal many different ways of reading stand out. The displacement of quotations and the mosaic of discourse fragments and memories constitute a sampled poetic as well as a figuration of a collector poet. It demonstrates how, in her writing, the act of reassembling and repurposing quotations promotes, through ironic deviation, a poetics of “unoriginal genius”, as proposed by Marjorie Perloff, and/or a “uncreative writing”, as in Kenneth Goldsmith’s perspective, or or even a reading work, following Roland Barthes’ notion.
Keywords:
Adília Lopes; textual appropriation; archive; collection; irony