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  • The Language of Life with Bill Moyers (1995– )
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The Language of Life with Bill Moyers (1995– )
TV Mini-series
The magic of the spoken word takes center stage in this exhilarating eight-part series that showcases contemporary poets and their work. Join host Bill Moyers as he engages 18 writers--including greats Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, and Gary ...See moreThe magic of the spoken word takes center stage in this exhilarating eight-part series that showcases contemporary poets and their work. Join host Bill Moyers as he engages 18 writers--including greats Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, and Gary Snyder--in lively conversation, and share the experioence of hearing tehm read aloud before a live audience. Filmed on location at the fifth biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in historic Waterloo, New Jersey, The Language of Life combines intimate, one-on-one interviews and public performances--seceral with musical accompaniment by the famed Paul Winter Consort. Featured poets include National Book Award honorees, Pulitzer Prize winners, and a former U.S. Poet Laureate. Collectively, the writers here testify to the full range of human experience and poetry's power to inspire, redeem, and celebrate life. See less
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Director
David Grubin (1995)
Writer
David Grubin (1995)
Producer
David Grubin (1995)
Cinematographers
Ed Marritz | Joel Shapiro
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Updated Jun 23, 1995
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Jun 23, 1995 (United States)

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