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The Language of Life

Autor Bill Moyers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 1996
"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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780385484107
ISBN-10: 0385484100
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 181 x 228 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Anchor Books

Descriere

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.

Notă biografică

Bill Moyers was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant (and press secretary) to President Lyndon Johnson from 1963 until 1967, publisher ofNewsday, senior news analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television’s groundbreaking series. He is the winner of more than 30 Emmy awards and nine Peabody awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television, the Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association, and the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute. Among his bestselling books areListening to America,A World of Ideas,The Power of Myth(with Joseph Campbell), andMoyers on America. He serves as the pro-bono president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.