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Poetry in Motion

09/17/1982

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1hr 31min

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Documentary

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Charles Bukowski
  • William S. Burroughs
  • John Cage
  • Jim Carroll
  • Robert Creeley

    Director

  • Ron Mann

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Canada

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

John Cage

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

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