Poetry in Motion (1982)

8.0/10 • 91 min • Documentary

Overview

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

William S. Burroughs

John Cage

Jim Carroll

Allen Ginsberg

Tom Waits

Gary Snyder

Self

Amiri Baraka

Anne Waldman

Self

Michael Ondaatje

John Giorno

Ntozake Shange

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