Visuality and Experimentalism : Two Commented Examples in Contemporary Portuguese Poetry

Abstract

While looking into the ways in which two contemporary Portuguese poets have helped bring visibility to visuality and experimentalism, this paper addresses two main issues: the public and the private present in poetic representations. It also points out to the location of feminine voices from and through experimentalism both as an aesthetic movement and as a tool towards the search for voice and belonging. My aim is to question the current validity of experimental poetry as a political practice.