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MELO E CASTRO (E. M. de). PEÇA 59: Música Negativa ou Poema. Lisboa. 1966. - MELO E CASTRO (E. M. de) PEÇA 59: Música Negativa ou Poema . In: Poesia Experimental: 2.º Caderno Antológico. Lisboa, 1966. Org. António Aragão, E. M. de Melo e Castro e Herberto Helder. Lisboa: s.n., 1966. 1 ff. desdobrável; il.; 440×270 mm. (fechado: 147×270 mm.) Fold-out sheet extracted from the 2nd Anthology Notebook of Experimental Poetry (Lisbon, 1966), organized by António Aragão, EM de Melo e Castro and Herberto Helder - the founding publication of Portuguese experimental poetry, a continuation of the first notebook from 1964. The sheet exclusively gathers texts and pieces by EM de Melo e Castro (Covilhã, 1932 - São Paulo, 2020), poet, essayist and theorist who was, along with António Aragão and Ana Hatherly, one of the pillars of the PO.EX movement in Portugal. The reverse side of the sheet features the celebrated ”Piece 59 - Negative Music or Poem, ” a 59-measure staff with three lines (A, B, C) in which the musical figures are replaced by three geometric symbols (square, triangle, circle) with simultaneous poetic meanings: ”to strike the air or to search for eyes in the middle of the street, ” ”to agitate the air or to be definitively alone, ” ”to strike while resting or the restlessness.” The note indicates that ”according to this staff, it was presented in Lisbon - concert and pictorial audition of 7/1/65,” at the historic event held at the Galeria Divulgação with Jorge Peixinho, António Aragão, Salette Tavares, and Manuel Batista. The opposite side brings together several concrete and visual poems by the same author, in diverse typographies and spatial arrangements that explore the materiality of the letter and the page. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate