Poetry in Motion

Year: 1982

Runtime: 91 mins

Language: English

Director: Ron Mann

Documentary

More than twenty North American poets recite, sing and perform, and early in the film Charles Bukowski reflects on a poem’s energy. The voices trace a lineage from Walt Whitman and Charles Olson, spanning Black Mountain poets, Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen and Tom Waits, often blending radical political imagery with a troubadour spirit.

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