The Language of Life
The Language of Life "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. We only have to learn to listen."In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four…
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The Language of Life
"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. We only have to learn to listen."In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share.
Listening to Linda McCarriston's award-winning poems about a child trapped in a violent home, or to Jimmy Santiago Baca explaining how words changed his life in prison, or to David Mura describing his Japanese American grandfather's experience in relocation camps, or to Sekou Sundiata stitching the magic of his childhood church in
The Language of Life
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Language of the Feet
The Language of Birds
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The Language of the Law
The Study of Language
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