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Biography
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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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