Poetry in Motion

Name: Poetry in Motion
Director: Ron Mann
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1982-09-17
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Robert Creeley

Directed by Ron Mann

Documentary

19821h 31m7.0

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.