Do revés à potência: a revisão crítica da crise da poesia contemporânea em Marcos Siscar

Abstract

The following work aims at analyzing the critical production of poet and essayist Marcos Siscar in the context of theorization and configuration of contemporary Brazilian poetry especially with regard to the so named crisis discourses. After setting these focal points, this study examines the course of emergence of the latest poetry crisis from the standpoint of its preliminary agents, and also the consolidation of this crisis by means of its endorsement by literary criticism through their exercise of evaluation and debate. When reviewing the status quo of this crisis, Marcos Siscar withdraws it from a position of negative appraisement to a point which is productively inviting to instigate new reflections on contemporary Brazilian poetry and its contexts. Such positioning from Siscar consolidates the relevance of his work in comparison with other theoretical analyses on the subject, in addition to constituting itself as a critical endeavor in trying to understand Brazilian poetry and contemporaneity.