Poesia e precariedade: os possíveis e a política do contemporâneo

Abstract

This paper seeks to investigate possible relations between politics and contemporary Brazilian poetry, focusing an interview with the Brazilian poets Simone Brantes and Laura Liuzzi. In this interview, occurred in september 2018 (which is a sort of axis of Brazilian current political crisis), the authors take their stands concerning the act of writing poetry in a context of political crisis and disaster. According to them one must, first, acknowledge poetry’s powerlessness concerning any political emancipation. Furthermore, one should recognize the political overtones entailed in the mere existence of the poem, the precarious life reaffirmed by the fact that we (still) write. It is mainly this second aspect that we seek to elaborate. Therefore, we invoke a negative and conflicting diagnostics of the Brazilian critique Iumna Maria Simon, as well as some remarks by the French writer Maurice Blanchot. In view of such (divergent or even incompatible) insights into the gesture of writing in relation to its possibilities, and also resorting to the political thinking of Judith Butler and Jacques Rancière, we come to the understanding that contemporary Brazilian poetry is constituted as a community of precarious bodies, presenting political thinking with the figure of a community founded on vulnerability.