This re-manifesto is from the closing night of Telefone Sem Fio: Revisiting the Word-Things of Augusto de Campos. The entire Concrete Poetry Manifesto was whispered in a line—à la the game of Telephone—and reconstructed as such:
Concrete poetry begins by assuming its order Responsibility before accepting language is the historic revolution of the possibility of the sun communication is something to do about the neighbor inducted without personality, without life without history that’s at least without convention insist within bearing the idea concrete poetry is not going away from where it’s he doesn’t dance with public or evils directed and be the center and be the sign by there concrete poetry is a world within itself many subjects have possibilities beside itself and life that is completely organized by a cycle the physical personal properties touch with antennae circulation heart belief far from assault without reality concrete poetry is self-debilitating concentration and increased debilitation open enough position in absolute realism no formal and logistic solutions strongly positioned in the center of history’s absence serving the systems of the sub- of the compromise poet and anachronistic healer with heart a medieval caress against words as corpses are intermingled offer a new construction that’s capable of capture without loss or compression of the temporary essence of the poet’s acceptable experience may chance and frown come in in a secondary plan upon the and an Apollinairey future such as planned an acceptable future not trying to keep internal composition with formal unity an asset diverse even free with complete poetry and idea grand because of national fields and functions moral plubus is no longer a place of acceptance ex-tenses and linear places of x’s with assistance by change and grants graphic phonetic functions of reason facts of proximity and lightness induced substantial lightness of space something that is maintained as a dialectic device within grammatical restrictions of meaning create a verb or object of analysis in this life, words are juxtaposed and a type possibility before a good job.