Sinfonia de escutas e silêncios : a medi(a)ção de leitura no clube da poesia.

Abstract

Reading mediation, when it provokes, moves and proposes, is an important foundation in the constitution of good listeners, shrewd readers, powerful vocalizers and, obviously, people who are competent in looking at words, others and the world around them. Valuing mediation is the first step towards having not only engaging and involved mediators, but also proposals for meetings that seek spaces for listening, silence and reading in each and every school. In this sense, we understand that reading is an essential right to life and, seen in this way, as a right, it can construct other and various meanings and paths to be followed with affection and criticality. However, it is well known how many fundamental initiatives there are in schools, but also how much there is still to do to find ideas and essential interactions in this complicity between reading, poetry and adolescents. With this in mind, this paper proposes the careful observation of the forest present (that space full of enigmas to be unraveled) awaiting the prudent exploration of a Poetry Club in a private institution in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, dedicated to students in the ninth year of elementary school, who - in our many generalizations - do not like poetry. This space-time found at the Club, once a week for eight months, as well as promoting the reading of poems, encourages teenagers to look inside themselves for some clues about their way of reading, vocalizing poems, understanding themselves through what they read, experiencing the body in language, in the company of another: the book, the poem, the music, the sound, the colleague, the silence, the listening, the mediator. To this end, we looked to phenomenology as an anchor for thinking about the encounters and how to understand, through attentive and affectionate observation, the processes that vibrate in adolescent bodies when they experience their body-language through the vocalization of poems. In this constant search, we were accompanied by theorists such as Gaston Bachelard, Cecília Bajour, Graciela Montes, Roland Barthes, Jorge Larrosa, Paul Zumthor, Eliana Yunes, Mirna Spritzer, Sandra Richter, Marina Garcés, Ângela Fronckowiak, and many other important authors who, like us, challenged themselves to look and listen. The idea of looking at this phenomenon requires a certain softness in research, because the phenomenon is an event and, while it is happening, it is transformed and becomes an experience. And our experience was always ready to open up new paths. As some possible (and not final) considerations, we would like to point out our concern regarding training: of a mediator-researcher, who is constantly remaking, undoing and rethinking herself; of teachers focused on the sensitive, especially in university degrees; and of readers, as beings who, even before choosing the text, have in their body in voice the welcoming nest for the words.