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Trapped between Graffiti'd Walls and Sidewalk Borders: Resistance, Insistence and Changing the Shape of Things: Author: Rohde-Finnicum, Robyn Renee; Date: 2006-08-15; Program: English; Abstract: Beat poetics, specifically exemplified by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Alan Ginsberg, offer a political aesthetic voice of dissent within both the cannon and the nation. Creating their own fold of heterogeneity, these poets base their critique of the Western Enlightenment technocratic and logocentric philosophic tradition upon a performance of marginality. Separating themselves from this way of being in the world, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg use American institutions and industries as metaphors for a Moloch-like system of imprisoning and/or destroying individuality and excess, sacrificing differenc...; Download File | View full details