
Ron Mann
Director

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Several also comment. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are energetic performers, and their poems are meant to be heard. 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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Ron Mann
Director

Amiri Baraka
Self

William S. Burroughs
Self

John Cage
Self
Diane Di Prima
Self

Allen Ginsberg
Self
John Giorno
Self

Michael McClure
Self
Miguel AlgarÃn
Self
Jayne Cortez
Self
Robert Creeley
Self
Helen Adam
Self

Jim Carroll
Self
Christopher Dewdney
Self
Kenward Elmslie
Self
Ted Milton
Self
Ted Berrigan
Self

Charles Bukowski
Self
Four Horsemen
Themselves