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Now Ms. Halo looked to random list generators, Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho and the work of the Brazilian concrete poet Haroldo de Campos to break up linearity.

He looked up lists of poetry movements on Wikipedia and concluded that he was not just a poet, he was a concrete poet.

Brazil's biggest newspaper group announced the death at the top of its website with a photograph of the country's celebrated intellectual and two articles lauding him as "the concrete poet", "the pessimist who loved life" and the "traditionalist for tomorrow."

So let the inexhaustibly inventive painter and concrete poet Kay Rosen have the last word.