Drowned Word

Poetry and Social Disaggregation in Novo endereço by Fabio Weintraub

Abstract

This essay proposes a new reading of Fabio Weintraub’s Novo endereço, resumed more than twenty years after the original publication of this award-winning book of poems. The intention is to show the disturbing actuality of the book, since the rough and cutting form of verses, the stylistic predominance in the ironic-colloquial, and their interest in the ruins of the metropolis and marginalized social types (sick people, poor workers, homeless people and all sorts of abandoned) is echoed in a new time of economic crisis and social disaggregation, the devastated present, also by the effects of the pandemic and the neoliberal turn of the right and far-right governments that took over the country between 2016 and 2022.