Poemóbiles: The Book Beyond the Book

Abstract Based on the idea of expansion of the book, this paper proposes a critical analysis of the book-object Poemóbiles (1974), by Augusto de Campos and Julio Plaza, investigating the structure present in its poetry and materiality, from the vanguard movements of the early 20th century and its extension to the contemporary. The objective was to put into perspective how the materiality of the book is manifested, from a study of its structural and historical aspects, as well as Campos’s work, analyzing the 1965 and 1974 versions of the poem “Luxo” and transcriações of other poems from the book. This paper argues that Poemóbiles is a book that extrapolates the idea of a book, given its three-dimensionality and its communicating structure, and that acts as the starting point for creations in artistic media uncommon in poetry, such as posters, holograms, and sculpture.