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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Capturing the Beat Moment Subtitle: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence Author: Erik Ronald Mortenson Narrator: Brian Kralowetz Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 03-07-14 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: Examining the moment as one of the primary motifs of Beat writing, Erik Mortenson offers the first book to investigate immediacy and its presence and importance in Beat writing. Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and provides an account of Beat practices that reveal how gender and race affect Beat politics of the moment. Mortenson argues that Beat writers focused on action, desire, and spontaneity to establish an authentic connection to the world ar