ABSTRACT
The catalyst for this change was an attitude by the avant–garde that repudiated all traditional literary conventions, while internalizing what is generically known as a "crisis of representation." There is much originality in its dynamics and proposed solutions: Brazilian poetry has managed to be, over the course of the last century, a literary form attuned to its living, contemporary environment, both nationally and internationally. The title and criterion both adequately characterize the regressive sense of Brazilian poetry during that decade. The new poetic form had the advantage of dispensing with literary tradition and training, which in a country such as Brazil, are always perceived as values of the dominant classes. The process is triggers internally by the stiffening authoritarianism of the military dictators who ruled the country, the turbulent climate of armed struggle, and the crisis of political legitimacy.
