Aestheticized Amazonian scenario: an analysis of the metapoetic style in Paes Loureiro’s poetry

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the metapoetic reflection embedded in some poems from the book Artesão das Águas (2014), by the poet and theorist João de Jesus Paes Loureiro, in order to investigate such discussions regarding the author's poetics. Specifically, the images of the Amazonian scenery will be analyzed, as well as the recurrences of a certain eroticism embedded in the fictional tissue, as a personification of poetic creation, in order to investigate how the poet uses these elements to discuss poetry itself. To this end, it is essential to reflect on metapoetry with the work of Octávio Paz (2012), Agleice Gama (2011), Geraldo Cavalcante (2012), among others, to better understand the author's style, based on the idea that Loureiro's poetry is marked by the transcendence of the material of Amazonian culture in terms of poetic creation, which causes a whole range of reflections on the productive task of poetry to reverberate. Finally, Paes Loureiro's own essays (2001) will support this research, aiming to understand the reflection on the creation of poetry in this author's work.