Useless, nothing, thing, animals. These are some of the word-key of a workmanship that tries to reconstruct the world.
Some poets pass, in its workmanships, one determined world vision; others are not contented with this and go beyond: they try to reconstruct the world. Manoel de Barros is one of them. Therefore, as it affirms Ênio publisher Silveira, "guided for it, we go opening horizontes of unsupicious a new natural order, where the essential truths, hidden under the ostensive triviality of the obvious one and the daily one" go if disclosing in described surrealistas images with absolute concision. In the text that opens the Book on nothing, the poet affirms that "the nothing of my book is nothing same. None is thing in writing: one has alarmed for silence, a abridor of dawn, appropriate person for rocks, the velvet screw, etc. What I wanted I was to make toys with the words. To make desúteis things. The same nothing. Everything that uses abandonment on the inside and for is." Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in a phase of its production "coisificou" the industrial world in full Cold War; Manoel de Barros makes
poetical exercises in the direction of "descoisificar" the world, searching a new form to organize it, that she respects the reading of that they only have "coisal entity". We will transcribe, to follow, the three first poems of the Book on nothing. It observes the expressiva force of the prefixes that indicate action of agent against principal (attempt to change the order of the things) e the great formed antithesis for that they only have "coisal entity "X the "gentleman doctor". I"... the things had for us a poetical desutilidade. In the deep ones of the yard our dessabor was riquíssimo. People invented a trick to manufacture toys with words... "II the father liveed in the end of a place. Here _ is people gap it spoke: Only almost that it has animal swallow and tree. Who presses the button of the dawn is arãquã. One day appeared there for one of formed other: full of suspensórios and ademanes. In the side of gaviões-caranguejeiros heaths they ate crabs. E was same distance between the frogs and relva. People played with land. The doctor appeared. He said: They need to take anquilostomina. Close to us always it had a wait of rolinhas. The doctor
frightened rolinhas. It observes that the poet assumes the position of a child, the intangible look of the infant perceives the world very grandiosamente_ when the formed doctor appears who for having been educated and if become adult lost the perception of the real world (sensational). As much that is clearly when the swallows are frightened by it. Extremely humanist and why not to say, ecological is the vision of the author on the world that curtails it