Affective transits in contemporary poetry: cartography, highlights and pathways

Abstract

This article inquires about the strong presence of art works, especially in contemporary poetry, that proposes a relational or collective way of reading and writing, that opens the notions of voice and subjectivity to the encounters with the other, sho­wing a conception of poetry as a body that affects and can be affected. For this, and taking the Marília Garcia’s work as a thread, I want to focus in some paradigmatic characteristics of contemporary poetry. At first, a focus on the work - poem, text, film - as a permanent movement of write-read, simultaneously, result of the readings and encounters with poets/frien­ds, and addressed to them. Second, on the evidence of the failure of the correspondence between reading and writing, between representation and real (observing especially the questioning of the cartography’s fan­tasy of localization). At last, on the work is produced as a road guided by emotional encounters, which perform the critical failure between representation and real, designing interventions in cartography, at once destabilizing any potential location, and creating spaces of belonging.