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32. CAMPOS, Augusto de. Despoesia. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva,
1994. Coleção Signos, 17. Large 4° (23.2 x 22.8 cm.), original
illustrated wrappers. Replete with concrete poetry typography. A
fine copy. 131 pp., (4 ll.). $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this collection of poems in two parts, “Expoemas”
(1980-84) and “Intraduções” (1979-93). In a “desfacio,” Campos claims he had not
published for 15 years, the last work being an anthology of 30 years of poetry, Viva vaia.
“Expoemas” has 13 compositions with richly colored illustrations silkscreened by Omar
Guedes to a more rustic homemade “minicontralivropoema,” xerographically published
in 1990. In this period, Augusto de Campos experimented with various media formats:
videotext, holograms, neon, laser, clip-poems, computer graphics; everything but a book.
The second part, ‘Intraduções’, has 50 poems.
Augusto de Campos (born São Paulo, 1931), poet, translator, literary critic, essayist
and musician, together with his brother Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari, founded
in 1952 the “Grupo Noigandres”, Brazil’s concrete poetry movement. “Plano-Piloto Para
Poesia Concreta,” co-authored with Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari, appeared
in number 4 (1958) of the concrete poetry review Noigandres.
j OCLC: 31137768.
Important Figure in Brazil’s Concrete Poetry Movement
Inscribes a Work to a Leader of the Literary Vanguard in Portugal
33. CAMPOS, Haroldo de. Maiakóvski em português: roteiro de uma
tradução. Rio de Janeiro: Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Instituto
Nacional do Livro, 1961. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (spine
defective at head and foot). A very good copy. Signed and dated author’s
presentation inscription in the upper and outer margins of p. 23: “para
e.m. de melo e castro, // êste ensaio de tradução-criação, // do amigo
em poesia // Haroldo de campos // s Paulo, // agôsto 64.” A few ink
corrections [in the hand of Haroldo de Campos? Melo Franco?]. (1 l.),
pp. 23-50, (1 blank l.). Offprint from the Revista do livro, Nº 23-24, Julho-
Dezembro 1961. $400.00
FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT of this heavily annotated essay, with significant
references to Ezra Pound, followed by the author’s translation of Mayakovski’s “A Sierguéi
Iessiênnin” (pp. 46-50). Together with his brother Augusto de Campos and Décio
Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos founded in 1952 the “Grupo Noigandres,” Brazil’s concrete
poetry movement. “Plano-Piloto Para Poesia Concreta,” co–authored with Augusto de
Campos and Décio Pignatari, appeared in number 4 (1958) of the concrete poetry review
Noigandres. In 1992 he was awarded the Prêmio Jabuti as literary personality of the year;
in 1999 he won the Prêmio Jabuti for poetry. Haroldo de Campos is considered the most
baroque of the Brazilian concrete poets. His poetry is integrally linked to the movement.
He was personally close to João Cabral de Melo Neto and Oswald de Andrade, and corresponded
with Ezra Pound and Octávio Paz.
Provenance: E[rnesto] M[anuel Geraldes] de Melo e Castro (b. 1932), textile engineer,
poet, essayist and critic, was one of the leaders of the literary vanguard in Portugal dur-