Edgard Braga was born in Maceió, State of Alagoas, in 1897. He moved at a very young age to São Paulo, where he eventually became a successful obstetrician. He embraced poetry very early in his life, and was strongly influenced in the beginning by the
symbolist/parnasianism movement. He had the opportunity to know Oswald de Andrade, among many other poets who became famous. However, his work changed in the 1960s after his contact with the concrete poets, who were much younger than him. His experimentations were compiled in his books: "Soma" (1963), "Algo" (1971), "Tatuagens" (1976), "Murograma" (1982), and especially, "Desbragada" (1984), which is a collection of virtually all his experimental work. He found his own style in the manifestation of handwriting and gesture. He became avant-garde when he was a mature man on the verge of old age. A young Edgard Braga, his poetry's admirers might say, who didn’t know his own age.