Configurar - desfigurar - transfigurar: de conversas com versos a diálogo com a poesia

Abstract

Frequently used in the oral and written discourse which shapes the experience of human daily life, the lexeme «make» and its correspondents in other languages are characterized by a dense polysemy which references numerous ways of making. Expressed as a verb, noun or adjective, the theme/motive of «making» integrates aspects of (material or immaterial) configuration, but also of disfiguration and transfiguration in a multisensory and multisided process, which, by combining cognitive and emotional-affective strands, fuses imagination and reflection. In art, human «making» reaches the borders of the sublime: poiesis challenges the contours of immanence. For this reason, conversations with verses become, in the poetic work of Maria Alberta Menéres, a dialogue with the transcendent.