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'Poets live the lives all of us live,' says Bill Moyers, 'with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. 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. 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 Harlem to the African tradition of storytelling, or to Gary Snyder invoking the natural wonde

The Language of Life A Festival of Poets

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      Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/1996
      ISBN13: 9780385484107, 978-0385484107
      ISBN10: 0385484100

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      'Poets live the lives all of us live,' says Bill Moyers, 'with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. 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. 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 Harlem to the African tradition of storytelling, or to Gary Snyder invoking the natural wonde

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