This 3-part series filmed at the Biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival complements the Bill Moyers series The Language of Life. Designed with the classroom in mind, each program includes poems and commentary from several of the 19 contemporary poets featured. The poets represent a wide range of poetic styles. 3-part series, 60 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : Why We Write | Allen Ginsberg and Friends | The Lure of Poetry

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		The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets A companion to Bill Moyers' book The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, this eight-part series-filmed at the Biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival-crosses the lines of race, gender, and culture to reveal, and revel in, the beauty and power ...(more details)		DVD $799.60 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $1,199.40 3-Year Streaming $799.60
		Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Touted as one of the first major feminist writers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman spent her life fighting to liberate women from the yoke of domesticity. This is a stunning BBC dramatization of Gilman's autobiographical account of a woman driven to madness...(more details)		VHS $149.95 DVD $149.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93 3-Year Streaming $149.95
		The Power of the Word This series welcomes viewers into the experience of poetry, helping them to discover that words retain the power to name things honestly, to touch the human spirit, and to enrich life. Bill Moyers introduces the audience to the world of poetry, well ...(more details)		DVD $599.70 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $899.55 3-Year Streaming $599.70
		Fooling with Words: A Bill Moyers Special In this captivating program, Bill Moyers explores the vitality and diversity of contemporary poetry through intimate interviews and performance readings at the Biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival-North America's largest. Poet Laureate Robert ...(more details)		VHS $169.95 DVD $169.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $254.93 3-Year Streaming $169.95
		Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: A Life Together Recorded in 1993, this classic program profiled Donald Hall and his wife, Jane Kenyon-two celebrated American literary figures. Kenyon, who died in 1995, was an award-winning poet and translator; Hall is the author of more than a dozen books of poetr...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $149.93 3-Year Streaming $99.95

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