The total relation: poetry, real, and intimacy in António Ramos Rosa

In Carlos Joao Correia & Emília Ferreira (eds.), Aesthetics, Art and Intimacy. Center for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. pp. 25-36 (2021)
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Abstract

How to be being to be being/ next to the united and firm/ and trembling/ mouth of the poem?”, “How to say what is clearer than clarity [...]?” or “How to unite a light design and an obscure gesture?” These questions, as well as many others that emerge from the poetic and essay writing of António Ramos Rosa (1924-2013), represent different modulations of the same angular question: that of the relation between poem and reality, or, more radically, between poem and being. And if such a question spreads into so many formulations it is because, in António Ramos Rosa, its scope is total, simultaneously aesthetic and ontological, metaphysical and spiritual. It is, therefore, this question that we will try to answer by looking into one of its possible faces: how can poetic creation be at the same time the most intimate gesture and the one that touches most deeply the undomesticated matter of the real, that absolute and unapprehensible Other?

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Helena Costa Carvalho
University of Porto

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