Poesia concreta

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Poesia concreta is Portuguese for concrete poetry, an avant-garde movement that came on the 1950s, initially in music, but later in poetry and plastic arts. The concretism defended rationality and rejected expressionism, perhaps, lyric abstraction and randomness. In their texts there is no intimism or worry about the subject, the obligation is to end up with the distinction between body and concept and create a new language.

During the 1960s members of the movement began experimenting with social themes, usually not involving them with their texts, being a personal connection instead. They began caring more about innovation in language.

Concrete poetry takes Vladimir Mayakovsky as a large exponent. The Russian poet used to say that "there's no revolutionary art without revolutionary form."