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Author:

Moyers, Bill D.

Title:

The language of life [sound recording] : [a festival of poets] / Bill Moyers.

Format:

[sound recording]

Publisher:

BDD Audio ;

Copyright Date:

p1995

Description:

8 sound cassettes (8 hr.) : analog, Dolby processed.

Subject:

Audiobooks (Cassette.
American poetry--20th century--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
American poetry--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American poetry--20th century.
Minorities--United States--Intellectual life.
Poets, American--20th century--Interviews.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

9780553474275
0553474278

OCLC:

(OCoLC)32881066

Locations:

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)