Décio Pignatari

Décio Pignatari (Jundiaí, August 20, 1927) is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.^[1]

Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words. Such verbal adventures culminated in Concretism, aesthetic movement that founded together with Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, with whom he edited the journals Noigandres and Invention and published the Theory of Concret Poetry (1965).

As a theorist of communication, translated works of Marshall McLuhan and published the essay Information, Language and Communication (1968).^[1] His poetic work is held in Poesia Pois é Poesia (Poetry because it's Poetry) (1977).^[1]

Décio Pignatari published translations of Dante Alighieri, Goethe and Shakespeare,^[1] among others, gathered in Portrait of Love when Young (1990) and 231 poems. He also published a volume of stories The Face of Memory (1988) and the novel Panteros (1992), as well as a work for theater, Céu de Lona (Sailcloth Sky).

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Entrevista Décio Pignatari" (in Portuguese). Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. http://www.utp.br/entrevista/default_decio.asp. Retrieved April 2011. 

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Name	Pignatari, Décio
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Short description	Brazilian poet, essayist and translator
Date of birth	August 20, 1927
Place of birth	Jundiaí, San Paulo, Brazil
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