Augusto de Campos

José Augusto Correia de Campos ( born February 14, 1931 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian poet, translator and music critic.

Life

Augusto de Campos studied law at the University of São Paulo and published in 1951 his first volume of poetry, O rei menos o reino. He founded in 1952 with Décio Pignatari and his brother Haroldo de Campos magazine Noigandres. The three were in the group of Brazilian writers who grappled with the concrete poetry, and in 1956 took part in an exhibition on the concrete art in the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. He wrote several essays on the concrete poetry. He took the radically changing from the 1980s on technical possibilities in his art.

Campos translated authors such as Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce ( Finnegans Wake ), Ezra Pound (The Cantos ), Vladimir Mayakovsky, Arnaut Daniel, Rainer Maria Rilke and EE Cummings into Portuguese. In 1979 he was awarded for his collection of poems Verso Reverso Controverso the Prêmio Jabuti in the Category Translations was founded in 1993 and again won the award.

He arranged for a reassessment of the works of Oswald de Andrade and Sousândrade and wrote music critic of the contemporary music of the 20th century.

Works (selection)

• Rimbaud livre. 1992
• Rilke: poesia coisa. Text German and portug. Rio de Janeiro: Imago 1994 ISBN 85-312-0346-5
• Verso Reverso Controverso. 1978
• Caixa preta. 1975 Julio Plaza
• Poembiles. 1974