BOOK REVIEW. TETRAPHÁRMAKOS BY ALBERTO PIMENTA

Authors

  • Lúcia Evangelista

Keywords:

Alberto Pimenta, author books, Epicurus, experimental poetry, performance art.

Abstract

The text consists of a review of the reissue by the publishing house 7Nós of Alberto Pimenta’s four debut books — O Labirintodonte (1970), Os Entes e os Contraentes (1971), Corpos Estranhos (1973), and Ascensão de Dez Gostos à Boca (1977) — now brought together in the box set Tetraphármakos (2025). More than an act of editorial recovery, the publication is read as a performative object that materializes the corporeal, historical, and political dimensions that permeate the author’s work. The early books already foreground features that run through his poetics, such as metapoetic reflection, parody, and a critique of hegemonic forms — both poetic and social — as well as the formal transformation of the poems in response to distinct historicaldiscursive contexts.

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References

Dias, S. I. G. (2016). O corpo como texto: Poesia, performance e experimentalismo nos anos 80 em Portugal [Tese de doutoramento]. Universidade de Coimbra.

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Pimenta, A. (1995). A magia que tira os pecados do mundo. Cotovia.

Pimenta, A. (2025). Tetraphármakos. 7Nós

Published

2025-08-31

How to Cite

Liberato Evangelista, L. (2025). BOOK REVIEW. TETRAPHÁRMAKOS BY ALBERTO PIMENTA. Todas As Artes, 8(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/taa/article/view/16337

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Section

Recensões/Resenhas