Poetry in Motion

Year: 1982

Actors: Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Robert Creeley, ...

Duration: 91 min

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,...

Genre: Action   Documentary