- Country: Canada
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 1982-10-01
- Director: Ron Mann (I)
- Writers: N/A
- Language: English
- Stars: Helen Adam , Miguel Algarín , Amiri Baraka
- Runtime: 91 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Poetry in Motion , Poetry in Motion (United States of America) , Poetry in Motion (Canada)
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt0084514
Poetry in Motion Cast · · · ALL
Ron Mann
(I)
Director
Charles Bukowski
William S. Burroughs
John Cage
Jim Carroll
Allen Ginsberg
Tom Waits
(I)
Himself
Michael Ondaatje
Ntozake Shange
Gary Snyder
John Giorno