Movie

Poetry in Motion

★ 8/10 · 3 votes 1982 1h 31m Released

Documentary

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 Self William S. Burroughs Self John Cage Self Jim Carroll Self R Robert Creeley Self Allen Ginsberg Self