Fooling With Words: A Celebration Of Poets And Their Craft

Fooling with Words is an intimate, inspirational celebration of language in its most exalted form and of the importance of poetry in our lives today. In dozens of poems and a series of fascinating conversations with poets gathered for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Fooling with Words brings poetry to life for the reader. Bill Moyers has been covering the poetry beat for more than a decade, and in 1998 he returned to the Dodge Festival with his cameras, capturing performances by poets and interviews revealing their images, metaphors, and emotions. Coleman's Barks reads from his translations of Rumi and shares poems dedicated to his granddaughter. Mark Doty discusses poetry's power to preserve moments, Jane Hirshfield talks about Zen's influence on her work, and Moyers interviews poets including Lorna Dee Cervantes, Deborah Garrison, Paul Muldoon, Marge Piercy, Kurtis Lamkin, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Pinsky. Anyone who loves poetry or seeks a meaningful gift will cherish Fooling with Words.