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Danilo de Athayde

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Work

A selection of works, between poetry and research, and the complete archive, arranged by category, with the publication status of each work.

Selected work

  1. Book of poems

    Estar na Grama

    Poems written, abandoned and taken up again over a decade, moving from the garden at home to the expanding universe, with a preface by Guilherme Gontijo Flores.

    published · Patuá, 2024

  2. Journal article

    “A tradição do tempo”

    On contemplative time and its passage from poetry to cinema.

    published · Rebeca, 2025

  3. Journal article

    “Dante e o Humanismo”

    The Machine of the World in the Comedy and the anticipation of Renaissance humanism. Selected for the “Produção em destaque 2021–2024” of UFMG’s Graduate Programme in Literary Studies.

    published · Nuntius Antiquus, 2024

  4. Interactive digital poetry

    Noemáfagos

    A work of digital poetry in which each of the twenty-one poems has a mechanic of its own, a gesture the reader performs that is part of the poem’s argument. The book, in preparation, will gather these poems and others.

    published · noemafagos.com, 2026

    Explore the 21 poems

  5. Doctoral thesis

    O nome de tudo

    Reads the Machine of the World in Dante, Camões and Drummond as a poetic-scientific allegory of the understanding of the world and, from the passage from World to Universe, proposes an asymptotic realism.

    being written · defence expected in 2027

    research

  6. Journal article

    “A Máquina no Buraco”

    Drummond’s stumble and the falling epiphany in “A Máquina do Mundo”, read alongside the poet’s Itabira and the iron mining that consumed the Pico do Cauê. Luso-Brazilian Review.

    accepted · forthcoming

    in the thesis, part I

  7. Conference paper

    “After the Machine of the World”

    Allegorical scarcity as an epistemic condition of the expanding universe, at Ratio Ethica, the conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts with the University of São Paulo.

    presented · SLSA and USP, 2026

  8. Special issue, editor

    “De Dante aos buracos negros”

    Poetics of the unintelligible and the crisis of representation in contemporary science, a special issue of Em Tese.

    in progress · Em Tese, UFMG

Archive

From most recent to oldest within each category. For articles, the year is that of the issue, and the date the text actually appeared is given alongside when it differs. The threads light up the works they run through.

Books

  1. in preparation Noemáfagosa book of poems, with the poems from the site and others
  2. in preparation Glossário Poético da CosmologiaPoetic Glossary of Cosmology · entries made of a definition, a poem and a scientific gloss · conception and editing
  3. 2024 Estar na GramaPatuá, São Paulo · poems · preface by Guilherme Gontijo Flores
  4. 2024 Poema é istoZero Edições, Salvador · first considerations on the art of poetry · essay and poems
  5. 2014 ZumbiCoisa Edições, Porto Alegre · poems and an essay · signed Danilo Augusto
  6. 2013–2014 PoemasVirtual Books, 2013 · handmade, hand-bound edition, Ritmo Zero, 2014 · signed Danilo Augusto
  7. 2013 Canto para a morte de MandelaRitmo Zero, Salvador · chapbook, free to reproduce
  8. 2005 Sonhos e outros sonosSalvador · poems · signed Danilo de Athayde Fraga

Digital poetry

  1. 2026 Noemáfagosnoemafagos.com · a work of interactive digital poetry, with 21 poems, book-page versions and a PDF

Doctoral thesis

  1. 2027 O nome de tudoin progress Dante, Camões, Drummond and the Machine of the Universe · University of Porto and UFMG, under a cotutelle · qualification text in 2026, part III being written · defence expected in 2027

Poems in journals and anthologies

  1. 2025 “Three poems by Danilo de Athayde”Ruído Manifesto · poems from Estar na Grama · published 12 Mar. 2025
  2. 2025 Nine poems from Estar na GramaGermina
  3. 2024 Brasilidades Poéticas IIMente Aberta, Salvador · anthology
  4. 2023 1º Prêmio Literário Fernando José KarlManuscritos Editora, Joinville · prize publication
  5. 2017 “3 poemas inéditos”escamandro
  6. 2016 “Três poemas inéditos”escamandro
  7. 2016 Poems in escamandro no. 2print issue, Patuá
  8. 2016 “Foi você quem espalhou essas cinzas no chão?”R.Nott Magazine
  9. 2016 “Ménage à trois”Mallarmargens · three poems
  10. 2015 “Deus existe e minha mãe é triste”escamandro · video poem
  11. 2014 “Prince e outros poemas”escamandro
  12. 2014 Five poems from Estar na GramaMallarmargens
  13. 2014 “Canto para a morte de Mandela (fragmentos)”Jornal Relevo · April 2014
  14. 2014 “Não leia mais”Jornal Relevo · June 2014
  15. 2013 “O dia do nojo do poema e outro poema”Germina
  16. 2013 “Uma mulher a mais e outro poema”S.E.X.U.S, pp. 50–51
  17. 2013 “Consiste em prendê-lo em cola”Samizdat, pp. 72–73
  18. 2013 “Ataque de tubarão”Desenredos, pp. 13–17
  19. 2013 “Os poemas de Borges”Modo de Usar & co., pp. 78–79
  20. 2013 “Mais ou menos haicais”Verbo21
  21. 2012 Three poemsGermina
  22. 2012 “Fisiologia da decifração”Collection of prizewinning texts, on CD
  23. 2012 “Noturno para Franz”Samizdat, p. 99
  24. 2012 “Outras folhas amarelas”Verbo21 · unpublished poems
  25. 2012 “Pequenos artistas”Verbo21
  26. 2012 “As três Graças”Revista Varal
  27. 2012 “Esquecimento conjurado”Varal do Brasil, p. 40

Journal articles

  1. 2026 “A Máquina no Buraco: o tropeço de Drummond e a epifania em queda em ‘A Máquina do Mundo’”accepted · forthcoming Luso-Brazilian Review · accepted in 2026
  2. 2025 “A tradição do tempo: a transfiguração do ato contemplativo da poesia ao cinema”Rebeca – Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual, vol. 14, no. 2, e1264, pp. 1–33 · July–Dec. 2025 · published 5 Jan. 2026DOI 10.22475/rebeca.v14n2.1264
  3. 2024 “Dante e o Humanismo: a Máquina do Mundo, o centramento do humano e a antecipação do humanismo renascentista na Comédia”Nuntius Antiquus, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1–20 · selected for the “Produção em destaque 2021–2024” of UFMG’s Graduate Programme in Literary Studies · published 27 June 2024DOI 10.35699/1983-3636.2024.48311
  4. 2023 “O mundo não é um globinho de neve: Mundo, Universo e o descentramento do humano perante o infinito”Philia | Filosofia, Literatura & Arte, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 86–103 · published 24 May 2024DOI 10.22456/2596-0911.134152
  5. 2023 “O conceito de democracia na atualidade: reflexões sobre seu significado civilizacional”Humanidades & Inovação, vol. 10, no. 17, pp. 346–354 · published 17 June 2024
  6. 2023 “Abortion in Brazil. Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: can the Brazilian State be held accountable?”Humanidades em Perspectivas, vol. 7, no. 18, pp. 62–74 · published 28 Nov. 2023
  7. 2014 “O arco do entendimento humanista em as ‘Máquinas do Mundo’: Dante, Camões, Drummond”Ellenismos, vol. 26 · also in Musa Rara, March 2014

Conference proceedings

  1. 2025 “Camões e a Máquina Legível: ver, entender e conquistar”Proceedings of the 21st ENECULT, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador · full paper and talk
  2. 2024 “O sino revirado: Drummond, a Máquina do Mundo e o Pico do Cauê”Proceedings of the 20th ENECULT, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador · full paper and talk
  3. 2015 “A escola de Babel: aprendizagem, mundo virtual e um estudo de caso”Proceedings of the 11th ENECULT, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, pp. 1–11

Conference papers and talks

  1. 2026 “After the Machine of the World: Allegorical Scarcity as an Epistemic Condition in the Expanding Universe”Ratio Ethica: Toward Epistemic Justice, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts and University of São Paulo, São Paulo · 27 August 2026
  2. 2026 “The Continuum and the Cut: Self-Reference, Cognitive Heuristics, and the Figuration of the Whole”Ratio Ethica: Toward Epistemic Justice, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts and University of São Paulo, São Paulo · with Marco Bortolato · 26 August 2026
  3. 2026 “Alegoria técnica e deslocamento da função poética na disputa contemporânea pela figuração do cosmos”7th International Colloquium on Linguistic and Literary Studies (CIELLI), State University of Maringá, Maringá · 9–12 June 2026 · hybrid event
  4. 2026 “Da Máquina do Mundo à Máquina do Universo: escassez alegórica e a representação da totalidade”1st Colloquium “Mimesis e Representação”, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
  5. 2026 “Escassez alegórica e a crise da legibilidade depois da tradição da ‘Máquina do Mundo’”13th International Seminar on Literature and Culture, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão · abstract in the seminar booklet, Editora Criação
  6. 2025 “A escassez alegórica e o desafio contemporâneo”“O Escritor e seus Múltiplos” meeting, Faculty of Letters, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador · lecture
  7. 2024 “O sino revirado: notas sobre ‘Itabira’, o Buraco do Cauê e a derrota incomparável em Carlos Drummond de Andrade”Open Poem: Short Lyric, CITCEM and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Porto · 30 January 2024
  8. 2024 “Carlos Drummond de Andrade e a Máquina no Buraco”Doctoral Research Day in Literary Studies, University of Porto, Porto
  9. 2024 “The 400 Error of the Word Machine”Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art, London Arts-Based Research Centre, London · 12–13 October 2024, in London and online
  10. 2023 “Interdisciplinaridade, intertextualidade e complexidade no mundo virtual: novos percursos de leitura para uma autonomia da aprendizagem”3rd National Congress of Linguistics and Literature, State University of Rio Grande do Norte, Patu
  11. 2019 “Silent Scars: Torture, Amnesty and the Struggle for Truth in Brazil”Human Rights Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo
  12. 2016 “O arco do humanismo em as Máquinas do Mundo”UFBA 70th Anniversary Congress, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador
  13. 2016 “De volta para o passado: concretismo, fim da modernidade e o futuro que não chegou em poesia”Literary Theory and Creative Writing, Faculty of Letters, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador
  14. 2015 “O reino da poesia é o lugar nenhum?”Curso Jorge Amado, 5th Colloquium on Brazilian Literature, Academia de Letras da Bahia, Salvador
  15. 2015 “Leitura e produção intertextual: contemporaneidade, mundo virtual e um estudo de caso”Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador · lecture, with Francisco Zorzo
  16. 2014 “Drummond recusa a Máquina do Mundo: o arco e o ocaso do entendimento humanista”Curso Jorge Amado, 4th Colloquium on Brazilian Literature, Academia de Letras da Bahia and Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado, Salvador · he was also part of the event’s organization
  17. 2014 “O arco do entendimento humanista: a inteligibilidade do mundo como um tema literário”Student Research Seminar in Letters (SEPESq), Institute of Letters, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador
  18. 2014 “As interlocuções múltiplas de Augusto de Campos”“O Escritor e seus Múltiplos” research seminar and SEPESq, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador · with Evelina Hoisel

Essays and criticism

  1. 2026 “Make It Grief: Hamnet, Train Dreams, and the Prestige of Loss”Bright Lights Film Journal · published 5 Sept. 2026
  2. 2025 “Sacred Time, Profane Screen: The Persistence of Mystical Contemplation in Cinema”Bright Lights Film Journal · published 8 Jan. 2025
  3. 2024 “Didatismo e excesso: Grande Sertão (2024) e a ofuscação da narrativa pela mensagem política”Humanidades em Perspectivas, vol. 8, no. 21, pp. 165–167 · review · published 3 Jan. 2025
  4. 2024 Sem escrupulariasSonho Editorial · preface
  5. 2014 “Por que poesia?”Pessoa · interview with Angélica Freitas, Eduardo Sterzi and Tarso de Melo · April 2014
  6. 2014 “O biógrafo em Verão: Coetzee”Desenredos, vol. 20
  7. 2013 “O poeta perdido no mar: Hart Crane”Cadernos de Não-Ficção, no. 5, pp. 32–41
  8. 2013 Para além do que não háAgbook · preface to the book by Sid Summers
  9. 2012 “Uma dose violenta de qualquer coisa: Geração Beat e desregramento poético”PodLer, pp. 34–39
  10. 2012 “O nome das Musas: desocultação e presença no canto de Hesíodo”Desenredos, vol. 16
  11. 2012 “Édipo e Dejanira: a leitura comparada de dois heróis sofoclianos”Verbo21
  12. 2012 “O que é Walt Whitman?”O Pensador Selvagem
  13. 2012 “Os mortos-vivos, os vivos e os mortos”O Pensador Selvagem
  14. 2012 “The Walking Dead e o mito dos zumbis”Revista O Grito!
  15. 2010 Entre Esopo e Orwellpreface

Translations

  1. 2015 Hart Crane, “The Broken Tower”RelevO
  2. 2015 Shakespeare, Sonnet 19Cisma
  3. 2015 Flarf poetryCisma, no. 6 · selection, translation and introduction
  4. 2014–2015 Tang dynasty poets after William Carlos Williamsescamandro, in four parts, with a closing essay
  5. 2014 Flarf poetry: Gary Sullivan, Jordan Davis, Steve Roggenbuckescamandro, with an introductory essay
  6. 2014 Wallace Stevens, three poemsescamandro
  7. 2014 Walt Whitman, “Early Notebooks” (fragments) and “There Was a Child Went Forth”Germina
  8. 2014 William Blake, poems and proverbsGermina
  9. 2014 John Keats, “Ode on Melancholy”escamandro
  10. 2013 Alec Lichtenberg, “The Maid” and other poemsGermina
  11. 2013 Alec Lichtenberg, “To the man crying on Gilman street at 1:30 AM on Saturday night” and other poemsDesenredos, no. 17, pp. 45–53 · May 2013, signed Danilo Augusto
  12. 2012 William Blake, “The Tyger”escamandro
  13. 2012 Blake, Dickinson, Crane: poems of intimate experienceDesenredos

Editorial work

  1. 2026 “De Dante aos buracos negros: poéticas do ininteligível e a crise da representação da ciência contemporânea”in progress Em Tese · special issue, editor · call for papers open until 30 October 2026
  2. 2024–2026 Peer reviewad hoc reviewer for Diadorim, Rebeca, Philia, Mundaú, Temporalidades, Docência do Ensino Superior and Educação em Revista
  3. 2025– Em Teseeditor · journal of the Graduate Programme in Literary Studies, UFMG · the editors’ notes are written with the editorial team
  4. 2015–2016 Hyperionassociate editor · journal of the Institute of Letters, Federal University of Bahia

Until 2017, poems and translations appeared under the name Danilo Augusto. The work is also recorded on Lattes and ORCID.