Paulo Leminski - concretism and counterculture from Brazil

Published: May 11, 2014, 12:18 p.m.

b"Paulo Leminski (1944-1989) was a writer of prose, poetry, literary criticism and translation. His first publications appeared in Inven\\xe7\\xe3o, a journal of the Brazilian Concretist poets. Leminski later engaged with Brazilian counter-cultural movements of the 1960's and 1970's. His extensive body of poetry was collected in 2013's Toda Poesia.\\n\\nReadings by:\\n\\nJAMES DUNCAN\\nJamie Duncan is currently completing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at Lancaster University. He publishes poetry in English and Portuguese through The Pedestrian Sounds Press.\\n\\nWELLINGTON DIAS\\nBorn in the Amazonian state of Amap\\xe1, Wellington Dias graduated in Performance Art at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). He co-founded the Rio based collective Bando Filhotes de Le\\xe3o (RJ)."