The Language of Life

A series of interviews with thirty-four American poets celebrates modern poetry and includes notable works by Linda McCarriston, Jimmy Santiago Baca, David Mura, Sekou Sundiata, Gary Snyder, and Adrienne Rich. Reprint.

In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four 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 re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Poets speak with Moyers about their work, their lives, and their creativity. In the tradition of the bestselling Healing and the Mind and The Power of Myth.