Décio Pignatari is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, essayist and translator

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

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Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words. Such verbal adventures culminated in Concretism

Concretism

Concretism may refer to one of the following*Concrete art, a form of abstractionism*Concrete poetry*Reism, a philosophical movement*concretism , an opposite of abstraction, see Attitude_*Reification...

, aesthetic movement that founded together with Augusto

Augusto de Campos

Augusto de Campos is a Brazilian writer who was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist....

 and Haroldo de Campos

Haroldo de Campos

Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...

, with whom he edited the journals Noigandres and Invention and published the Theory of Concret Poetry (1965).

As a theorist of communication

Communication

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, translated works of Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...

 and published the essay Information, Language and Communication (1968). His poetic work is held in Poesia Pois é Poesia (Poetry because it's Poetry) (1977).

Décio Pignatari published translations of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...

, Goethe and Shakespeare, among others, gathered in Portrait of Love when Young (1990) and 231 poems. He also published a volume of stories The Face of Memory (1988) and the novel Panteros (1992), as well as a work for theater, Céu de Lona (Sailcloth Sky).