This article will present the influence of the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014, Slovenia) on the poetry of the mid-generation poet from Brazil, Narlan Matos (1975, Itaquara, Bahia), and will highlight the context of their meeting and Šalamun’s first entry into the Brazilian literary world. It will also outline the translation and poetic exchanges of both authors, and the elements of literary contact between two poetics and the intertextual interactions mirrored in the poetry of the Brazilian poet Matos, especially in his third collection entitled Elegy to the New World and Other Poems (Elegia ao novo mundo e outros poemas, 2012), in which the reference to Šalamun is especially accomplished in the song Letter to a Slovenian. Matos’s dialogue with Šalamun’s poetry takes place in several key points: in associative leaps and playfulness, as in the search for and imitation of the typical rhythmical patterns of Šalamun’s verse, along with his musicality.Članek bo predstavil vpliv, ki ga je imel slovenski pesnik Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014, Slovenija) na poezijo brazilskega pesnika srednje generacije Narlana Matosa (1975, Itaquara, Bahia): osvetlil bo kontekst njunega srečanja in Šalamunov prvi vstop v brazilski literarni svet ter orisal prevajalsko in pesniško izmenjavo obeh avtorjev, prvine literarnega stika med dvema poetikama ter medbesedilne interakcije, ki se zrcalijo v poetiki brazilskega pesnika Matosa, zlasti v njegovi tretji zbirki Elegija novemu svetu in druge pesmi (Elegia ao novo mundo e outros poemas, 2012), v kateri se sklicevanje na Šalamuna udejanji zlasti v pesmi Pismo Slovencu. Matosov dialog s Šalamunovo poezijo poteka v nekaj ključnih točkah: v asociativnih preskokih in ludizmu ter v iskanju in posnemanju tipičnih ritmičnih vzorcev Šalamunovega verza in njegove glasbenosti
