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The Language of Life Papeback -
by Bill Moyers
- New
Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller celebrating the importance of poetry in American life today. In a series of fascinating conversations with 34 poets, The Language of Life celebrates language and its unique power to re-create the human experience. It is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.
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- Title The Language of Life
- Binding Papeback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House , New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date pp. 480
- Bookseller's Inventory # 63889568
- ISBN 9780385484107 / 0385484100
- Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 7.13 x 1.19 in (22.78 x 18.11 x 3.02 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.540
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From the jacket flap
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.