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Augusto de Campos’ first CONTRAPOEMAS, works that incorporate implications of protest and contestation, were published in the 1960s in response to the change in the country’s national political context represented by the Military Coup of 1964. They make up part of the exhibition at Luciana Brito Galeria, which includes works like LUXO [LUXURY], from 1965, built over the kitsch typography of a luxury real estate advertising, as well as more recent poems, some of them hitherto unseen. Such is the case of the ready-made CLÁUSULA PÉTREA [STONE CLAUSE], which is “the mere transcription of a stone …