All rudeness, actually, is calm

Abstract

This article aims at analysing the poetics of education in Maria Amélia Dalvi’s Poema algum basta (No Poem Stands Alone). In opposition to what may be paradoxally named “metapoetry of things”, a recent poetic tradition which combines the legacies of the Brazilian Concretism and the so called Marginal Poetry, Dalvi’s work lays down its roots back into the Brazilian Modernism, specially its “amphibious” quality of entangling construtivism and engagment (as pointed out by the literary critic Silviano Santiago). In such poetics of education, Dalvi, both as poet and intelectual, merges a self-attribution of pedagogical character with the poetic task of building a pure form, an artistic construction against a dystopian world. This article also aproximates recurrent images of sea and mountain within Dalvi’s work to the Hexagram 4th in the I Ching, named Imaturity, which main image is education.