TY - BOOK AU - Moyers,Bill D. AU - Haba,James AU - Grubin,David AU - Meryman-Brunner,Elizabeth TI - The language of life: a festival of poets SN - 9780385484107 AV - PS 325 M938l 1995 U1 - 811/.5409 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Poesía estadounidense KW - Historia y crítica KW - Siglo XX KW - Minority authors KW - Minorities KW - United States KW - Intellectual life KW - Poets, American KW - Interviews KW - Ethnic groups KW - Poetry KW - Authorship KW - Poesía KW - Autoría N1 - Published to coincide with the premiere of the eight-part PBS series of the same name; Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-450); W.S. Merwin Claribel Alegría James A. Autry Jimmy Santiago Baca Coleman Barks Robert Bly Marilyn Chin Lucille Clifton William Stafford Victor Hernández Cruz Rita Dove Carolyn Forche Donald Hall Joy Harjo Michael S. Harper Robert Hass Garrett Kaoru Hongo Sharon Olds Jane Kenyon Stanley Kunitz Li-Young Lee Linda McCarriston Sandra McPherson David Mura Naomi Shihab Nye Adrienne Rich Galway Kinnell Gary Snyder Gerald Stern Sekou Sundiata Mary TallMountain Quincy Troupe Daisy Zamora Octavio Paz N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random043/95010348.html ER -