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Biography

 

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978

Poet, translator, essayist, performer, composer and editor of the Confraria do Vento.

Author of the books Movimento Perpétuo (Perpetual Motion, 2002), Intradoxos (2007) and Ensaios Radioativos (Radioactive Assays, 2008), he collaborated with newspapers like O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de Minas and with numerous brazilian and international magazines, having his works translated into English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Finnish and Dutch. He also integrates the anthologies Poetas do Mundo VI (Poets of the World VI, University of Coimbra), Cepensamento 20000 (Azougue Editorial) and 8 Poetas (8 Poets, Editora UFRJ), among others.

He taught advanced training in creative writing and sound poetry at the University of Coimbra and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a translator, he published texts of Gherasim Luca, Gilles Yvain, Serge Pey, Mathieu Bénézet, Hagiwara Sakutaro and Forrest Gander. In 2008, he received the National Library Foundation Scholarship, for the book of essays Pética das Casas (Poetics of Houses) and in 2009, was resident poet in Monsanto, Portugal.

Experimental poet, with emphasis on treatment of sound and word processing in real time, made presentations in United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Ukraine, Argentina, and several cities in Brazil, sharing the stage with poets such as Bruce Andrews, Stephen Rodefer, Miro Villar, Arjen Duinker and Jonathan Morley.

Among his most recent presentations included Polyphonic Embolada Baobab (2008), Vertebrae (2009), Indivisible: Poem-polyphony for voices, violin, electronic processing, bells and whistles (2009) and the Polyphonic play for word, violin and subway (2009), presented in a subway station in Rio de Janeiro. Because of its Radioactive-Poetic Conference (2007) in the ghost town of Chernobyl, in Ukraine, became "the first radioactive poet of the world."

 

He lives in Lisbon.

 

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