Leonardo Martinelli

Leonardo Martinelli was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1971. The poet and composer published a single book, the collectionDedo no ventilador (Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi, 2005), and had been a member of the editorial board of the magazineInimigo Rumor for several years. With a Master's degree in literature from UERJ (he wrote his thesis on Julio Cortázar), he was a professor and had recently been researching contemporary poetics under the influence of Giorgio Agamben's work. Some of his critical texts are important recent references for the study of authors, such as his essay on Ferreira Gullar.

 

Writing about the poet and his debut book, Lu Menezes would say:When I first saw Leonardo Martinelli, in the corridor of a Rio de Janeiro university, his physiognomic vivacity distractedly made me associate him with a rocker converted to academia. And why? After all, the external sobriety of this young poet – also a composer, guitarist, and literary critic – suggested that, on stage, he would remain unattached to clichés. As in his debut book. From the title,Dedo no ventilador reveals the elusive exceptionality with which Leonardo moves against the grain of a priori "poetic" poetry. Far from the ethereal strings of the lyre like the X-rays of moonlight, the ring-lines of Dedo no ventilador erupt into the flesh of reality, driven by incisive thought, stripped not only of idyllic illusions but also of the narcissistic poses recurrent in some contemporaries.