Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die memoriale ‹Poetik des Stolperns› in Haroldo de Campos «Galáxias»

Galáxias (1984), the polyphonic world poem by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, has been discussed to date mainly in the context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. By means of a new reading, Jasmin Wrobel shows that the work can be viewed as a poetic and concrete testimony to a century of catastrophe: it contains “textual stumbling blocks” that give the reader pause, which ultimately coalesce into a “Poetics of Stumbling.”