Between the city of words and the city of concrete :

poems by Nicolas Behr

Abstract

This article analyzes the representations of Brasilia included in the poems from the second period of Nicolas Behr’s career. This work aims to capture some of the social imaginary of the Federal Capital from the poems dedicated to this city from the 1990s and on. In this second moment of Behr's work, the initial strangeness generated by his contact with the modernist city of the 1970s seems to be overcome, as his poetry suggests accommodating Lucio Costa's utopian city. The poems are narratives of feelings that can be glimpsed, adding other layers to the thickness of the History of Brasília. To achieve the acknowledgment of these representations, the analysis was conducted through the sharing of interpretative repertoires, in a dialogical practice of interpretation where the voices of the author and the reader participate.