Subject:
For Philadelpho Menezes
Date:
Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:01:09 -0500
From:
David Baptiste Chirot <dbchirot@csd.uwm.edu>
To:
POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Some very sad and tragic news:
Philadelpho Menezes died in a car accident Sunday, 23
July 2000.
He was only 40 and working on the organizing of an
upcoming
conference of the Sound Poetry to be held in Sao Paulo, his
native city.
He had just issued
a new CD, INTERPOESIA, produced with Wilton Azeredo.
Philadelpho Menezes produced many works and CDs of
Sound Poetry
and Visual
Poetry, organized many conferences in both areas and wrote
extensively on
them, critically and theoretically.
He was also Professor in the post-graduate program in
Semiotics
and Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao
Paulo.
His major work, POETICS AND VISUALITY A Trajectory of
Contemporary Brazilian Poetry
is in English translation by Harry Polkinhorn, San
Diego State
University Press, 1995..
Excerpts from this work are at Light and Dust Mobile
Anthology of
Poetry
http://www.thing.net/~grist/homekarl.htm
Also theoretical work of Philadelpho Menezes in English
translation is included in:
CORROSIVE SIGNS Edited by Cesar Espinosa, trnaslated by
Harry
Polkinhorn. (Washington D. C.: Maissonneuve Press,
1990).
Philadelpho Menezes was a very generous and energetic
participant, organizer
and distributor of ideas and works and performances of Sound
and Visual
Poetry. His work and spirit and life are an example of the
openness and internationalism in the practise, thinking,
history and
generosity possible in the open fields of Visual Poetry and
Sound Poetry,
of the Intersign.
In honor of Philadelpho, may fellow workers keep alive
his example
and memory and works.
He who walks in hiddennes
has light to guide him
in all his acts.
--Chuang Tzu
in this spirit, we have the light of Philadelpho
Menezes for guide
--dave baptiste chirot