Poetry in Motion
Compilation
Compilation
Opening Sequence & Titles
Amiri Baraka
Anne Waldman
Ted Berrigan
Kenward Elmslie
Ed Sanders
Helen Adam
Tom Waits
Charles Bukowski
William S. Burroughs
Christopher Dewdney
Michael McClure
Ted Milton
Robert Creeley
John Cage
Four Horsemen
Michael Ondaatje & Bukowski
Jayne Cortez
Diane DiPrima & Bukowski
John Giorno
Ntozake Shange
Gary Snyder & Bukowski
Allen Ginsberg
Jim Carroll & Bukowski
Miguel Algarin
Director Ron Mann has put together readings by 24 different poets (after filming a total of 60 writers reciting their works), and then has poet and author Charles Bukowski verbalize "everyman's" criticisms of poetry: it is boring, irrelevant, self-indulgent, and does not make much sense. Then he counterpoints these statements with dynamic, entertaining, and inspiring works by poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones, Anne Waldeman, Helen Adams and 20 others.