Poetry in Motion
17/09/1982
2h



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More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.
Cast


Charles Bukowski
Self


William S. Burroughs
Self


John Cage
Self


Jim Carroll
Self
Robert Creeley
Self


Allen Ginsberg
Self


Tom Waits
Self


Gary Snyder
Self
Ted Berrigan
Self
Ed Sanders
Self
Diane Di Prima
Self


Amiri Baraka
Self


Anne Waldman
Self
Kenward Elmslie
Self
Christopher Dewdney
Self
Michael McClure
Self
Ted Milton
Self


Michael Ondaatje
Self


John Giorno
Self


Ntozake Shange
Self
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