Poetry in Motion 1982

Title: Poetry in Motion
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Languages: English
Genres: Documentary,
Runtime: 1:31:00 Hour
Cast: Helen Adam, Miguel Algarín, Amiri Baraka
Directors: Ron Mann
Rating: 7 (174 Votes)
Year: 1982
Summary: 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.