Abstract
This study proposes an investigative itinerary through part of Sebastião Uchoa Leite's poetic work, grounded on the configuration of illness in the books A uma incógnita (1991), A ficção vida (1993), A espreita (2000) and A regra secreta (2002). Through reading and analyzing the poems and the theoretical and critical works related to the reflection, the study offers an interpretation of t…