91 minutos
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.
Charles Bukowski
William S. Burroughs
John Cage
Jim Carroll
Robert Creeley
Allen Ginsberg
Tom Waits
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Michael Ondaatje
Ntozake Shange
Gary Snyder
John Giorno
Ted Berrigan
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Ed Sanders
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Diane Di Prima
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Amiri Baraka
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Anne Waldman
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Kenward Elmslie
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Christopher Dewdney
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Michael McClure
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Ted Milton
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Michael Ondaatje
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John Giorno
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Ntozake Shange
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