摘要：This paper o ffers so me reflect ions on the possibilit y of a dialog between African and Nat ive- American o ral poetics and Western poetics within Brazilian lit erary scenery. From the notion t hat Brazilian culture, and therefo re its literature, is an extension of European culture, with no possible solid co ntributions fro m Native-American and African elements, the t ext argues, based o n works by authors such as Segismundo Spina, Ruth Finnegan, Jerome Rothenberg and Antonio Risério, t hat a dialo g with oral poetic t rad itions, in particu lar those fo und in Brazil, is po ssible and desirable. Some theories about t he supposedly primitive character o f the cultures from which these poetics have sprung and some o f their aesthetic characteristics are d iscussed, proposing that, as distinct as they are, oral and written poetic traditio ns share some common features that can be bro ught together
关键词：Oral po et ic traditions. Poetic form. Dialog between cu ltures
