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Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems - Featured Book - Ursula K. Le Guin (November 2012)
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Before this collection the only books I'd read by Ursula K. Le Guin were The Earthsea Trilogy and Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, so this volume of poems (suggested by Will) is a revelation. I'd not realised that she had been so prolific, nor that she is a poet.Initial thoughts, anyone?
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The Earthsea Trilogy (other topics)Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (other topics)
Though internationally known and honored for her imaginative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin started out as a poet, and since 1959 has never ceased to publish poems. Finding My Elegy distills her life's work, offering a selection of the best from her six earlier volumes of poetry and introducing a powerful group of poems, at once earthy and transcendent, written in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
The fruit of over a half century of writing, the seventy selected and seventy-seven new poems consider war and creativity, motherhood and the natural world, and glint with humor and vivid beauty. These moving works of art are a reckoning with a whole life.