The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets - Hardcover

Moyers, Bill D.; Haba, James; Grubin, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385479174 ISBN 13: 9780385479172

Verlag: Doubleday, 1995

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Book by Bill Moyers

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In the companion book to the new PBS series, the creator of Healing and the Mind interviews an ethnically diverse group of poets, both famous and obscure, and explores the enduring fascination of poetry. TV tie-in. 175,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

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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 invoki

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385479174
• ISBN 13: 9780385479172
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1