"The audio sound track to the PBS series produced by David Grubin and Public Affairs Television"--Container.
Contents:
pt. 1. Welcome to the Mainland : Sekou Sundiata and Naomi Shihab Nye -- pt. 2. Love's confusing joy : Coleman Barks -- pt. 3. The field of time : Sandra McPherson and Linda McCarriston -- pt. 4. Some can sing : Robert Hass, Claribel Alegría and Carolyn Forché -- pt. 5. Here in the mind : Gary Snyder and Daisy Zamora -- pt. 6. Swirl like a leaf : Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Bly, and Marilyn Chin -- pt. 7. The heart of things : Adrienne Rich, Michael S. Harper and Victor Hernández Cruz -- pt. 8. Come celebrate with me : Lucille Clifton and David Mura.
Summary:
In a series of conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language in its most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form, and its unique power to recreate the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, losing faith, finding God.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.