Abstract
From within the eclipsing of politics, poetry has become a place of combat against totalities and their totalitarianism. I start from one of the main strengths of contemporary poetry: poems in which autobiographical writings become political through fractures that make us think of wounds that are inflicted to both family and community; intimate and public wounds, current and historical wounds. While the poetry made in Rio de Janeiro was to some extent predominantly carried out by residents of the Southern Zone, the poet Andre Luiz Pinto’s place of origin demarcates a distinct political intrusion - the suburb and the slums -, which leads to repeteaded urgency in his poems: “Adolescence did not know/ that despite the confusion between prose/ and poetry, this is not a revolution. What matters / is the wage that supports life and this is the truth”.
Keywords:
poetry; politics; contemporaneity; autobiography; misunderstanding