Uma última canção para os olhos: a presença do cinema na poesia de Al Berto

Abstract

Poetry produced in the 20th century frequently explored the potentialities of the image and intermediality processes, in order to produce a discourse designed to contain lyrical expression. However, the peculiarity in Al Berto’s work is precisely the duplicity of the traditions it evokes. If, on the one hand, visuality occupies a central place in his writing, on the other the confessional tone of many of his poems is indisputable. This essay focuses on the understanding of a coexistence between these two vectors, and the way in which they result in a discourse whereby cinema is directly brought into the poetic spectrum.