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050	0	0	_aPS325 _b.M69 1995
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100	1		_aMoyers, Bill D.
245	1	4	_aThe language of life _b: a festival of poets _c/ Bill Moyers ; James Haba, editor ; David Grubin, contributing editor ; Elizabeth Meryman-Brunner, art research
260			_aNew York _b: Doubleday _c, 1995.
300			_axx, 450 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aPublished to coincide with the premiere of the eight-part PBS series of the same name.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [445]-450).
520			_a"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 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. "'Listen,' said the storytellers of old, 'listen and you shall hear,'" explains Bill Moyers. The Language Of Life is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.
650			_aAmerican poetry _y-20th century _x-History and criticism
650			_aAmerican poetry _x-Minority authors _x-History and criticism
650		0	_aMinorities _x--United States _z--Intellectual life
650			_aPoets, American _y-20th century _v--Interviews
650		0	_aAmerican poetry _x--20th century
650		0	_aEthnic groups _x--Poetry
650		0	_aPoetry _x--Authorship
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