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"Pietá" by Mário Botas [1952-1983]











This corresponds to a mode of aesthetic intervention, recognised as being avant-garde and followed by poets that were frequently connected with other movements, most particularly with neo-realism and surrealism. Its main exponents, who have remained faithful to this tendency for at least four decades, are E. M. de Melo e Castro and Ana Hatherly (the latter also being the author of an important surrealist novella, O Mestre).


E. M. de Melo e Castro

 

 “Racing in circles” - I

The circle is the chosen form:
It’s an egg, it’s zero
It’s a cycle, it’s science.
In it is included all mystery
And all wisdom.

It is what is made,
Perfect and determined
It is what begins
In what is finished.

Ana Hatherly

 


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