Poetry in Motion

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