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
Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of over 60 novels, short fiction works, translations, and volumes of poetry. She is known mostly for her works of science fiction and fantasy, including the acclaimed novels The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed. Le Guin is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and her books continue to sell millions of copies worldwide. An author of singular imagination and resolve, Le Guin died in 2018 in her home in Portland, Oregon.