Brazil's literary scene was stirred in 2001 by the publication of the poem "Sítio", by Claudia Roquette-Pinto, who until then was considered an intimist poet, prone to metaphorization, and locked up in her own bourgeois world. This essay aims to discuss how the author could develop in that poem an understanding of fear and violence, without giving up her introspective imagery and her previous poetic experience, which is concentrated in a referentially scarce writing. The in-detail text analysis intends to register the poet's conversion from the realm of opacity, lacunae, and indetermination to the characterizing of the urban violence and emotional misery that afflicts the privileged ones. Thus our analysis seeks to combine the implications of Brazil's present social-historical reality with the vulnerability of the poetry and the needs of the poetic self.
contemporary Brazilian poetry; urban violence; representation; Claudia Roquette-Pinto