Tyrteu Rocha Vianna (November 28, 1898 – September 21, 1963) was a Brazilian poet avant-garde and pioneer

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, and large landowner of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. He was born in São Francisco de Assis,

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, a small isolated town where he lived most of his life; despite this, has been regarded by critics as one of the most gifted or the most modernist poet of the early twentieth century in Rio Grande do Sul. Had influence of

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mostly, but also the Manifesto Antropófago and

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. Has just published a book,Tyrteu Rocha Vianna. Saco de Viagem 1st ed. 1928 (Traveling-bag, 1928). Organization of the 2nd ed. / Critical study and notes by Marcon, Italico
Published 1993 by the State Institute of the Book, EDIPUCRS in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Written in Portuguese. and was author that has been little known and little appreciated by his countrymen and contemporaries. He died in

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, aged 64.

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External links

Tyrteu Rocha Vianna poems in Spanish by Adrian'dos Delima. RIM&VIA Poesia Nova. Canoas. Rio Grande do Sul. 11/25/2010.
Brazilian male poets Futurist writers 1898 births 1963 deaths 20th-century Brazilian poets 20th-century Brazilian male writers Amateur radio people {{Brazil-writer-stub