Hunt-work: Cacaso's poetry

Abstract

The article examines the poetic production of Antônio Carlos de Brito, Cacaso, from his earliest work, A palavra cerzida, up to his last poems, stressing how the intertextual relations established with canonical Brazilian poetry is retrieved by the poet in various ways. If, in the early poems, his attitude is reverent and the tone of the long texts is solemn, in the last poems Cacaso's lines take on a more ironic, biting and concise diction, revealing the "hunt-work" of the Brazilian sparrow of prey, which turns to the Brazilian poetic tradition in search of nourishment for his work.