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Artigo realizado no âmbito do projecto "PO.EX'70-80 Arquivo Digital da Literatura Experimental Portuguesa", com a Refª PTDC/CLE-LLI/098270/2008, financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) e co-financiado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do COMPETE – Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (POFC). ; Concrete poetry does not constitute an organized movement in Portugal. Instead, one must consider a range of contemporary Portuguese poetic experimentations achieved by several poets which come close, at a given point in time, to the aesthetics of concretism. This distinctive feature of the Portuguese context is outlined in this article in a comparative perspective, situating the poetics and politics of experimentalism within the international context of concrete poetry, but stressing specific aspects of the critical, historical and political Portuguese context. At the same time, the concrete tendency of experimental poetry points to the importance of literary and communication theories, as semiotics, information theory, and others provide background to understanding individual poems and manifestoes of the poets mentioned within. Finally, the article takes into consideration the fact that concrete poetry fits in larger poetic discourses, ultimately forcing the importance of poetic discourse and literary practices for a better understanding of our surrounding world and culture.

This article focuses on the poetics and politics of the Portuguese Experimental Poetry movement, addressing the question of how aesthetic practices combined with ideological issues. This aestheticization of daily life is furthermore related to the political unrest of the 70s in Portugal, as it poets often challenged conventional critiques of the self-reflexive and self-representational stances of avant-garde poetries. In this way, it is argued, experimental poetry connects theory to a general sociological and political praxis, thus assisting us in understanding communication in the arts as a mixed process of poetics and politics.

This article focuses on the poetics and politics of the Portuguese Experimental Poetry movement, addressing the question of how aesthetic practices combined with ideological issues. This aestheticization of daily life is furthermore related to the political unrest of the 70s in Portugal, as it poets often challenged conventional critiques of the self-reflexive and self-representational stances of avant-garde poetries. In this way, it is argued, experimental poetry connects theory to a general sociological and political praxis, thus assisting us in understanding communication in the arts as a mixed process of poetics and politics.