| Description |
ix, 89 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- So far -- I. Planning -- II. The boat -- III. The food -- IV. The unknown continent -- V. The absolution -- VI. Calm sea -- VII. The course kept -- VIII. Timor -- IX. Intimations -- X. The boat itself -- XI. Night -- XII. 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781556595387 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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