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Poetry in Motion (1982)

Poetry in Motion (1982)

Documentary
Release Date: 1982, September 17
Directors: Ron Mann
Countries: Canada
Cast: Robert Creeley, Tom Waits, Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, John Giorno, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Diane Di Prima, Ted Milton, Anne Waldman, Christopher Dewdney

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.