Augusto de Campos (1931, São Paulo, Brazil) is a poet, translator, and critic. In 1952, with his brother Haroldo and Décio Pignatari, he launched the literary magazine _Noigandres_, the iniciator of the Noigandres Group which introduced the international movement of concrete poetry. In 1956 he participated in the _First National Exhibition of Concrete Art_ at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo. His work has since been included in many international exhibitions, as well in international anthologies. Most of his poems were assembled in _VIVA VAIA_ (Poetry 1949/1979), _DESPOESIA_ (UNPOETRY,1993) and _NÃO_ (NO, 2003). Other important works are _POEMOBILES_ (1974), and _CAIXA PRETA_ (Black Box,1975), collections of object–poems in collaboration with the graphic artist Julio Plaza. As a translator, Augusto rendered the poetry of avant–garde authors, among them Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and E.E. Cummings, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vielimir Khlebnikov, Marina Tsvetaeva. He has also devoted his work to the translation of innovators such as Arnaut Daniel and John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, and others. From 1990, he intensified his experiments with new media, presenting his poems through different vehicles such as electric billboard, videotext, neon, hologram and laser, computer graphics, and in multimedia events. More information about his work can be found at www.uol.com.br/augustodecampos, www.erratica.com.br, www.cronopios.com.br/mnemozine/, and www.ubu.com.
“Poetry is a good way to restate the beautiful moments of our lives.” —Augusto de Campos (2012) As Hurricane Sandy struck in October 2012, legendary Brazilian poet and founder of the Concrete Poetry movement Augusto de Campos and his son, the musician Cid Campos, were holed up in a Manhattan hotel. As part of the MoMA series Modern Poets,…
