Poesia marginal [marginal poetry] is a manifestation of (mostly) youth poetry produced in the Brazil c. 1970 - c. 1985. It appears, principally in Rio de Janeiro, immediately after Tropicália during the early 1970s, in opposition to academic restrictions and against the censorship imposed by the Brazil's military dictatorship from 1964, Anti-normative intellectuals, new academics, various poets and visual artists throughout the country began to seek alternative means of cultural dissemination in the face of closed cultural opportunities. Poets notably used the mimeograph machine to print texts. This technology let to the nickname "Mimeograph Generation" for the out-of-the-mainstream poets of the time. The "marginal" movement has interested scholars more as a socio-cultural phenomenon than