Galáxias (1984), the polyphonic world poem by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, has been discussed to date mainly in the context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. By means of a new reading, Jasmin Wrobel shows that the work can be viewed as a poetic and concrete testimony to a century of catastrophe: it contains “textual stumbling blocks” that give the reader pause, which ultimately coalesce into a “Poetics of Stumbling.”

This book is included in DOAB.