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Title: Fooling with Words : A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft by Bill Moyers ISBN: 0-688-17792-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Listening to a variety of poets
Comment: Bill Moyers loves to hear the tone and textures of poetry. This fondness is expressed in each of eleven poets selected from the Dodge Poetry Festival of 1998. The book starts with 90-year-old Stanley Kunitz reflection on Haley's Comet in 1910 to and continues to Robert Pinsky discussing his online poetry feature for Slate. There is music in many of these poems; most explicitly in Robert Pinsky's Ginza Gamba and references to Lester Young and Kurt Lamkin scatting with the kora, an African string instrument. If you can find the 2-hour PBS special on video (our library had a copy), you can hear the music of the kora and the Paul Winter Consort accompanies Coleman Barks.
The joy of a book is the diversity ranging from Coleman Barks translation of Rumi " I see my beauty in you", to the new Jewish tradition of the "Chuppah" of the Wedding, of Marge Piercy. Perhaps Mark Doty's two poems about a dog "Beau" most show the depth of a poet - from a very touching poem about licking a dieing friend, to the rambunctious "Golden Retrievals".
Rating: 5
Summary: A Jewel of Words for Writers and Poets!
Comment: Having waded thru Bill Moyers' TV series on Genesis - A Living Conversation and Joseph Campbell Interviews on Myth, I relate to him keenly as following his fame as Presidential Press Agent!
In his lengthy series on Genesis, exposing us to Prof Armstrong, Prof Brueggemann, scholars, rabbis, and pastors, all who spoke from their knowledge of Biblical Life. On reading, then placing the jewel back on the shelf...picking it up for a deeper reading each time, I decided it was worthy of far more attention.
His dedication to his Wife and Co-writer Judith, renewed my love for W.B. Yeats Poem of her "moments of glad grace..." Bringing me back to true depths of reading poetry aloud! Reminding me of hearing the Prison Inmates request within their therapy groups: "Chaplain, what do those profound words of poetry mean?" Bill Moyers addresses this question in satisfying ways! That may well have grown out of his training as a pastor.
For my read his interview with 90-yr old, Stanley Kunitz began with, "What do you love most?" A super reply, "Most of all, I love being alive!" For a poet who kept publishing his poetry at 90, he gave Bill his inner and out response by reading aloud two of his favorites: "The Round" about his seaside garden on the Cape which he created out of a barren sandhill "my little Eden." Then he provided reminders of his early, most famous poem that one reviewer, an English professor called the greatest poem she ever knew, read or studied: "The Touch" which he read aloud. He was floored by audience reponse from the Dodge Poetry Festival, with cheers, whistles, applause, shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!"
From ten other poets, only Jane Hirchfield was familiar. As Moyers asked for her comments on Zen meditation, she reminded me of a little gem by Anthony deMello, titled simply - "AWARENESS." She gave her words of meditation practice also simply developing an awareness to this moment; "As if you were to sit very quietly in the woods to be translucently awake." (like mind-fulness)
All in all, it speaks to me like another Bill Moyers Jewel!
Retired Chaplain Fred W. Hood
Rating: 5
Summary: Bill Moyers is a National Treasure!!!!
Comment: As an English teacher, I already love reading books on poetry anyway, but Bill Moyers is such an amazing interviewer (as any viewer of his amazing NOW show on PBS already knows) that he brings out elements of the poems and the poets that make the reading more profound. I discovered some great poets I was not previously familiar with (Coleman Barks, Lorna Cervantes) and was thrilled to see Stanley Kunitz discuss one of the most riveting poems ever put to paper, "Touch Me." If you have not read this poem, go online immediately and check this one out. Kunitz is in his 90's, but is an inspiration to all by the vitality he exudes in his life and in his poetry. Including "Touch Me" in the book would have guaranteed 5 stars from me alone, but the other worthy additions make this a great read even for a casual lover of poetry.
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Title: The Language of Life by Bill Moyers ISBN: 0385484100 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0156005743 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: New and Collected Poems : 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0060514485 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch ISBN: 0156005662 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 07 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins ISBN: 0812968875 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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