Matilde Campilho: por uma poética do espanto

Abstract

This work aims to discuss the poetics of Matilde Campilho, a Portuguese poet who gained prominence in digital medias and published her first book in 2014. Through the analysis of Jóquei (Lisbon: Tinta-da-China, 2014) and the videopoems published on her YouTube channel, a study of the work is extended, especially considering its disposition of reenchantment on a fragmented world, which we have come to call the poetics of astonishment. For the critic and researcher Alberto Pucheu, we live in an era of the nullification of astonishment, or of the post-astonishment, which would be the gene of all philosophy, as well as of poetry itself. Seeing the astonishment as the remodeling of a body coming from the violence of an unpublished state, we put the poetry of Campilho in counterpoint to this affirmation. Based on the studies in schizoanalysis, the work presents a brief theory of the astonishment, related to the schizo walking between the borders, going through a thought of reconstruction of the contemporary art until the present day, when the new technological means provide the resumption of the powers of the body in poetry.