Choir to one - notes on "cançãonoturnadabaleia" by Flora Süssekind

“…It deals with the contrasts between its three versions: the printed, that can be found in his book Despoesia, the oralized version, included in the compact disc Poetry is risk, and the videographic, produced by Flávia Soledade. The essay gives also a survey of its basic references (Melville, Morgenstern, Rilke, Scelsi, Malevitch, Rodtchenko, Baudelaire) and of its rollback to the subjects of the white, of the relations between sound and silence, color and vocal variations, recurrent themes in Campos' poetry since O rei menos o reino (1949- 1951). …”
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