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About
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.
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Jul 23, 2002
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Cast
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Charles Bukowski
Self
W
William S. Burroughs
Self
J
John Cage
Self
J
Jim Carroll
Self
R
Robert Creeley
Self
A
Allen Ginsberg
Self
T
Tom Waits
Self
G
Gary Snyder
Self
D
Diane Di Prima
Self
A
Amiri Baraka
Self
A
Anne Waldman
Self
K
Kenward Elmslie
Self
M
Michael McClure
Self
M
Michael Ondaatje
Self
J
John Giorno
Self
N
Ntozake Shange
Self
