“Porque os corpos se entendem/ mas as almas não”: Lupe Gómez e Olga Savary

Abstract

A confrontation between Pornografía, by the Galician poetess LupeGómez and Magma, by the Brasilian Olga Savary, shows thefact that the former intends to be substantively pornographical whereasthe latter intends to be erographical. Lupe gets herself exposed,reified, sold and hurt in a catharsis of her own. To both of them itmay and may not be applied the distich by Manuel Bandeira:“Porque os corpos se entendem/ mas as almas não”. It is applied toOlga as she is a woman poet hardly ever indulgent, although it isnot applied to her because within her lines it is not the body whoenjoys, but the whole person. It is applied to Lupe due to the lustinherent in her lines, although it is not applied to her because thereis not an understanding amongst the lovers but a reciprocal aggression.Olga passes along the eros towards the porn, but cannotmanage to detach herself from the passionate involvement, thus making porn be in service to eros. On the other hand, there are inLupe some irruptions of eros within porn, shaping thus an inner conflict,a deep pain. A final balance shows the victory of eros, which,to Plato, is the propellent force which leads the man to his deepestwish: the Good, the Fair, the Beauty. Lupe Gómez and Olga Savary,as every poet, gaze at the “beauty in itself” through eros and transfigureit into their lines.