Augusto de Campos

Augusto de Campos is a Brazilian poet and literary critic, recognized as a key figure in the development of concrete poetry in the 1950s. Alongside his brother Haroldo de Campos and poets D\u00e9cio Pignatari and Ferreira Gullar, he launched the first concrete poetry exhibition in 1956. Concrete poetry moves beyond traditional verbal expression, integrating graphic and geometric elements to create "verbivocovisual expression". This approach often uses ideograms and treats poems as visual objects, emphasizing their appearance on the page. Campos has also worked as a translator and published several poetry collections.12