Poetry in Motion
- Original title
- Poetry in Motion
- Year
- 1982
- Running time
- 91 min.
- Country
- Canada
- Director
- Cast
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- Helen Adam
- Miguel Algarín
- Amiri Baraka
- Charles Bukowski
- William S. Burroughs
- John Giorno
- Allen Ginsberg
- Michael Ondaatje
- Ntozake Shange
- Gary Snyder
- Tom Waits
- Anne Waldman
- Four Horsemen
- John Cage
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Literature
- Synopsis
- More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Several also comment. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are energetic performers, and their poems are meant to be heard. 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.
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