The Center of the Periphery: Concrete Poets and Paulo Leminski between São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro and Curitiba.

The purpose of this presentation is to explore the Brazilian literary space in order to explain the symbolic hierarchies that govern literary production, based on the theoretical frameworks of Pascale Casanova and Carlos Ginzburg. To this end, I will look at the artistic trajectories of the three founding poets of Concrete Poetry - Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari and Haroldo de Campos - and the artistic trajectory of the poet Paulo Leminski, who was a postulant and sympathiser of the movement. For our part, we want to show how the three poets who founded the magazines Noigandres and Invenção followed the renewal of the critical tone and the criteria of artistic understanding introduced by the new cultural institutions in the intellectual scene of São Paulo, paying attention to the trajectories of the three poets as they explain their position in the Brazilian literary scene. This period represents a moment of consolidation for São Paulo as a cultural centre, establishing itself in Brazilian intellectual life, which until then had had Rio de Janeiro as its main cultural capital. We I then examine Paulo Leminski's attempts to belong to and be accepted by the concrete poetry group, paying particular attention to the immediate reception of the 1975 book Catatau, which reveals the asymmetrical relationship between Leminski and the São Paulo group. The relationship between the novice poet and the group makes it possible to demonstrate the relationship between the centre and the periphery within the Brazilian literary space, through its impact on the artistic trajectory of the writer from Paraná, as well as on the works of the concrete poets. It also makes it possible to make the idea of the centre itself more complex, since the position of the group of concrete poets is crossed by several disputes.