A poesia das Makumbas de Edimilson Pereira: riscos e cruzos, axé e zamani

Abstract

Reading Makumba's poetry demands access to the wisdom of ancestry and African and Afro-Brazilian epistemologies. Therefore, this work proposed to study those epistemologies in face of the poetry of Edimilson de Almeida Pereira. About these new epistemes, its epistemicide was found, according to the considerations of Freitas (2016). The research corpus was delimited in the following books: A roda do mundo (2004), Poesia + (antologia 1985-2019) (2019), Livro de falas (2008) and Poemas para ler com palmas (2017). The book also authored by Blue note: imagined interview (2013) was consulted, however it is not a poetic work but a compilation of collected interviews, where the author exposes part of his creative process and his trajectory as a writer . Pereira is part of contemporary poets, so the theoretical fulcrum came from Marcos Siscar (2010; 2017). Based on Siscar's considerations and questions, the analyzed poems were contextualized. The author points out the crisis discourse and how it impacts on poetry today. The unheard and the inexperienced are embedded in Edimilson's poetry, so nothing is explicit. The unheard of is Exu, he questions ethnocentrism, phallocentrism and logocentrism, thus shaking the centered structure of knowledge, a view proposed by Derrida (2017). From this perspective, the myth became the epistemological core. The inexperienced came from the considerations of Benjamin (2019), Ribeiro (2019) and Agamben (2005). To understand Exu, it was necessary to approach aspects of the Bantu and Yoruba worldviews. In these worldviews, the concepts of word, time/space, person, sky and earth receive other meanings that clash with the Western view. This includes time, person, universe, axé and the Vital Force. The investigations of these elements were based on the authors Luz (1995), Oliveira (2003; 2007), Prandi (2001) and Ribeiro (1996). What these elements pointed to Pereira's poetry were crossroads and crossroads. At this point, the studies by Simas and Rufino (2018; 2019) and Haddock-Lobo (2020) formed this theoretical basis. At the crossroads, Exu transforms himself and, constantly, becoming is part of himself. Deleuze and Gattarri's (2012) studies on becoming were the theoretical fulcrum for this characteristic. Exu does not fit into any binarism, it is polylogical and polyphonic (SOARES, 2008); in Derridian terms, it's the inside/outside at the same time, so it articulates speech with writing. Therefore the crossroads that are formed is one of meanings, readings, paths and possibilities.