Time (re)woven in Poetry without age, by Jorge Cooper
Jorge Cooper, poetry, time, death, childhood.
The study develops a critical analysis of Jorge Cooper's poetry, articulated, in particular, to the theme of
time, in order to perceive the paths that Cooperian poetics takes in the approach of this theme in lyric,
already with a long and rich tradition, unfolding in others that are close to it, such as: the consciousness of
finitude, the memory of childhood, the loss. The research focuses on the reflection about time, turning,
centrally, to the analysis of the book Poetry without age (1950-1968); important corpus of this research,
the work is the second book written by the author. In the present work, we discuss the experience of time
articulated to language, seeking to understand it from the theoretical thought of Paul Ricouer (2019), and
the reflections about the duration thought of by David Lapoujade (2017); reflecting on the time textures
printed in poetry, in dialogue with the theorist Octavio Paz (2003); situated the work in the field of
modern poetry, more precisely in Brazilian poetry produced in the twentieth century, by taking into
account the poetic procedures that dialogue with modernity. For this discussion I take advantage of the
theory postulated by Hugo Friederich (1998), Afonso Berardinelli (2007) and Octavio Paz (2013),
Gumbrecht (1998). The understanding of the contemporary poetic look present in the work will take place
from the contributions postulated by Giorgio Agamben (2009), Celia Pedrosa (2018). The research is also
anchored to the critical fortune of the Alagoas author, which is a fundamental axis of dialogue for the
understanding of Cooperian polyetica.