CONSUMERS CHRONICLE: THE BURNING LIGHT OF POETRY

Abstract

To satisfy the voracious appetite of the consumer society in our globalized world, poetry is also the fruit of greed, as is the whole of literary creation. Floriano Martins criticizes such a situation in this article, focusing on the concrete dangers lying, in this sense, within Brazilian poetry, which is being converting into a simple product subject to supply and demand, regulated by the intellectual market. "Poetry lost this mythical accounting because the poet awoke one beautiful morning worried by what to wear," according to this concerned Brazilian poet.