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So far so good : final poems: 2014-2018
"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" -- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781556595387
- ISBN: 1556595387
- Physical Description: ix, 89 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | n-us--- Nature Poetry Death Poetry POETRY / American POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss POETRY / Women Authors Poetry |
| Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
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So Far So Good
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So Far So Good
"Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in So Far So Good , an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her death in January, 2018. Fans will recognize some of the motifs here--cats, wind, strong women -- as well as her exploration of the intersection between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown. The writing is clear, artful and reverent as Le Guin looks back at key memories and concerns and looks forward to what is next: 'Spirit, rehearse the journey of the body/ that are to come, the motions/ of the matter that held you.'"âe* Washington Post "Le Guin's farewell poetry collection, contains all that created her reputation for fiction--sharp insight, restless imagination, humor that is both mordant and humane, and, above all else, that connection to all creation, that 'immense what is'."-- New York Journal of Books "It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." --Salon "She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." --Margaret Atwood "There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." --Grace Paley Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her ground- breaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet, and wrote across genres for her entire career. In this clarifying and sublime collection--completed shortly before her death in 2018--Le Guin is unflinching in the face of mor- tality, and full of wonder for the mysteries beyond. Redolent of the lush natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, with rich sounds playfully echoing myth and nursery rhyme, Le Guin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career. From "How it Seems to Me": In the vast abyss before time, self is not, and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light. In time, soul brings the misty self to be. Then slow time hardens self to stone while ever lightening the soul, till soul can loose its hold of self . . . Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of over sixty novels, short fiction works, translations, and volumes of poetry, including the acclaimed novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Her books continue to sell millions of copies worldwide. Le Guin died in 2018 in her home in Portland, Oregon.
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