{"product_id":"the-language-of-life-isbn-9780385484107","title":"The Language of Life","description":"\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, \u003ci\u003eThe Language Of Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Listen,' said the storytellers of old, 'listen and you shall \u003ci\u003ehear\u003c\/i\u003e,'\" explains Bill Moyers. \u003ci\u003eThe Language Of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.\u003cb\u003eBill Moyers\u003c\/b\u003e 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 of \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 are \u003ci\u003eListening to America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA World of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Myth \u003c\/i\u003e(with Joseph Campbell), and \u003ci\u003eMoyers on America\u003c\/i\u003e. He serves as the pro-bono president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305399668965,"sku":"NP9780385484107","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385484107.jpg?v=1767740107","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-language-of-life-isbn-9780385484107","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}