Ethics and aesthetics on marginal poetry

Abstract

The anthology 26 poetas hoje [26 poets today], edited and published by Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda in 1976, shows that Ethics and Aesthetics are two absolutely connected dimensions of the Brazilian marginal poetry during the 1970s. This article aims to identify and examine the most important ethical and aesthetical characteristics of the marginal poetry critics to the military dictatorial times in Brazil. Stands out that the marginal poetry refused the status quo, in favor of experimentation and resistance, so that the connection between esthetics and ethics acquired political relevance, as one can verify in the anthology. Conclude, preliminarily, that the aesthetic experience comes to constitute itself as a pathway into ethical life.