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Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ursula K Le Guin; Copper Canyon Press, |
ISBN: | 9781556595387 1556595387 |
OCLC Number: | 1032292570 |
Description: | ix, 89 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Observations. Little grandmother ; Words for the dead ; McCoy creek: cattle ; Merlin ; All saints all souls ; McCoy creek: wind ; Six quatrains -- Incantations. Come to dust ; On second hill ; Lullaby ; To the rain ; Travelers -- Meditations. There was a jar in Oregon ; The fine arts ; An autumn reading ; "There is always something watching you" ; Outsight ; Lesser senses ; A cento of scientists ; How it seems to me -- Elegies. It used to be ; Berkeley, December 1941 ; Theodora ; Felled ; Rift ; For Heggaia ; Bats ; After the death of Orpheus ; July ; Looking back -- The night journey. Wakeful: Islanded, Night voices, Noctis oceanus ; Falling: Company, Doze, Farther, Sleep ; Dreaming: Tracks, The people ; Waking: Seaward -- So far. Planning ; The boat ; The food ; The unknown continent ; The absolution ; Calm sea ; The course kept ; Timor ; Intimations ; The boat itself ; Night ; Westering -- In the ninth decade. Three quatrains ; Theory of aging ; The old novelist's lament ; All abroad ; Leaves ; The last visit ; Where the ways grew narrow ; The desert crossing ; Walking the maze ; Desire and fear ; The combat ; "Soul clap hands and louder sing" said Yeats ; Ancestry ; On the western shore. |
Other Titles: | Poems. |
Responsibility: | Ursula K. Le Guin. |
Abstract:
"Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet. "I still kind of twitch and growl when I'm reduced to being the science fiction writer. I'm a novelist and increasingly a poet. And sometimes I wish they'd call me that," Le Guin said in a 2015 interview with NPR. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death in 2018--Le Guin immerses herself in the natural world, ruminating on the mysteries of dying, and considering the simple, redemptive lessons of the earth"--
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