The Language of Life with Bill Moyers

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  • Premiered: Jun 1995
  • Episodes: 8
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  • Ended
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Season 1
1x1
Welcome to the Mainland
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
Sekou Sundiata "oralizes" in polyrhythmic, jazz-influenced performances; Naomi Shihab Nye seeks universal truths in everyday objects and experiences.
1x2
Love's Confusing Joy
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
Transcendent verse by the 13th-century Persian mystic Rumi, as translated and read by Coleman Barks.
1x3
The Field of Time
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
"Saying the unsayable" about violence and love, in poems by Linda McCarriston and Sandra McPherson.
1x4
Some Can Sing
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
Poems of family and politics by Carolyn Forché and Claribel Alegría; "domestic felicities" and haiku by Robert Hass.
1x5
Here in the Mind
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
Everyday heroes and heroines in poems by former Sandinista revolutionary Daisy Zamora; "landscapes of the mind" by Gary Snyder.
1x6
Swirl Like a Leaf
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
Expressions of rage and forgiveness by Jimmy Santiago Baca, of identity and duality by Marilyn Chin, and of aging and wisdom by Robert Bly.
1x7
The Heart of Things
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
"Moving to the heart of things" with Adrienne Rich, celebrating multiculturalism with Victor Hernández Cruz, and jazzing with Michael S. Harper.
1x8 Show finale
Come Celebrate With Me
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1995
Poems exploring the pain and courage required to stand out, fit in, and stand up, by Lucille Clifton and David Mura.

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