Augusto de Campos

Augusto de Campos (São Paulo, 1931) is a Brazilian poet, translator, and essayist, co-founder of Concrete Poetry with Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari. He published key works such as Poetamenos (1953), Pop-cretos (1964), and Poemóbiles (1974). His poetry extends beyond print into video, computer graphics, and holograms. Campos translated Mallarmé, Joyce, and Mayakovsky, and published anthologies and critical essays. He authored songs performed by Caetano Veloso and Arrigo Barnabé and recorded Poesia é Risco with his son Cid Campos. In 2015, he received the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize.