Poéticas do excesso: Glauco Mattoso e Waldo Motta

Abstract

This study was based on the literary projects “coprophagic poetry” and “sacred eroticism”, by Glauco Mattoso and by Waldo Motta, respectively. These contemporary poets build their artistic work based on a life of social exclusions. Homosexuality, podolatry, sadomasochism and racism are always in these authors’ works and allow us to undertake a discussion about the conservatism, the contradictions, the deletion and the violence practiced by the bourgeois project of domination of human bodies and desires that are different from the heterosexual view, which guides the existence of the individuals. The contemporary context requires an artistic and social stance that reclaims the power of talk and the visibility of individuals who were erased by human history and who now democratically demand dignity, tolerance and respect. The research started from the intersection between the lyrical and the empirical persona in order to argument a poetics of excess supported, mainly, by the structuralist reading produced by Severo Sarduy (1979) in the essay “For an Ethics of Waste”. Important displacements, circularity, and parodic excess were the predominant expressive resources used to reach our research goal. The heteronormative approach given to social and cultural life enabled us to attest that the poetry of Glauco Mattoso and of Waldo Motta are literary tools that destabilizes sociocultural structures by selecting what is considered abject for their performances.