Haroldo de Campos and Augusto de Campos

Quick Facts Haroldo de Campos and Augusto de Campos were poets and literary critics, best known as the prime movers in the creation of Brazilian concrete poetry in the 1950s. Together with the poets Décio Pignatari and Ferreira Gullar, the Campos brothers launched the first exposition of concrete poetry in 1956 and published the avant-garde art and poetry magazines Noigandres and Invenção. Concrete poetry attempts to move away from a purely verbal concept of verse...