{"product_id":"the-language-of-life-a-festival-of-poets","title":"The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moyers, Bill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e ANCHOR BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-03-1996\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385484107\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\n\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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 wonder of mountains and rivers, or to Adrienne Rich calling for honesty in human relations, all testify to the necessity and clarity of the poet's voice, and all give hope that from such a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious threads we might yet weave a new American fabric.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"'Listen,' said the storytellers of old, 'listen and you shall\u003cbr\u003e\nhear,'\" explains Bill Moyers.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Language Of Life is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.\u003cbr\u003e\n      From the Publisher      \u003cbr\u003e\n\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn 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 wonder of mountains and rivers, or to Adrienne Rich calling for honesty in human relations, all testify to the necessity and clarity of the poet's voice, and all give hope that from such a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious threads we might yet weave a new American fabric.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"'Listen,' said the storytellers of old, 'listen and you shall hear,'\" explains Bill Moyers. 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