These warm, funny, and eloquent poems, spanning the years 2000 to 2005, by the celebrated author of Always Coming Home and The Language of the Night, showcase Le Guin’s many facets as a writer.
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One of the world's most honored authors of science fiction (The Left Hand of Darkness, etc.) and young adult fantasy (the Earthsea trilogy), Le Guin has also maintained a serious, if less often recognized, career as a poet. This sixth gathering of poems comprises compact and often songlike work, adroit in both Western (rhyming quatrains; couplets) and non-Western (meditation and praise song) modes. Much of Le Guin's work takes cues from landscape, especially that of the Pacific Northwest, where she lives; a set of stanzaic poems about a Caribbean cruise brings out both attractive descriptions and political ironies. Le Guin also considers advancing age: a few poems address her 70th birthday, and many others consider the regrets and resolution. Le Guin's young adult fiction draws on folktale and myth, and her poetry takes advantage of similar sources, from the Philomela story to Red Riding Hood; her most admired science fiction has political overtones, and she ventures into politics here with epigrams and strong stanzas against the Iraq war. (Mar. 14)
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"Le Guin's down-to-earth, intensely personal voice is unmistakable."—Los Angeles Times
“Short and sweet, these verses are simple and honest.”—Library Journal
“This sixth gathering of poems comprises compact and often songlike work, adroit in both Western and non-Western modes.”—Publishers Weekly
“These poems are musical; in turns fierce, playful, sunlit, dark; always in her own clear voice. She writes powerfully of love, aging, and illness, and her strong social vision never wavers.”—Naomi Replansky
“Here is a book to lift the spirits of all ages of readers—give it to your favorite teenager as well as your wisest elder. It is rich, resonant, and simply wonderful.”—Naomi Shihab Nye
“Short and sweet, these verses are simple and honest.”—Library Journal
“This sixth gathering of poems comprises compact and often songlike work, adroit in both Western and non-Western modes.”—Publishers Weekly
“These poems are musical; in turns fierce, playful, sunlit, dark; always in her own clear voice. She writes powerfully of love, aging, and illness, and her strong social vision never wavers.”—Naomi Replansky
“Here is a book to lift the spirits of all ages of readers—give it to your favorite teenager as well as your wisest elder. It is rich, resonant, and simply wonderful.”—Naomi Shihab Nye
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Immense talent with respect to the use of language to evoke images and emotions,
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This review is from: Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems (Paperback)
Best known as an award winning writer of science fiction and fantasy, Ursula K. Le Guin is also an accomplished poet. "Incredible Good Fortune" is the latest volume of her verse to see print and continues to document her immense talent with respect to the use of language to evoke images and emotions within her reader's 'theatre of the mind' through the use of free verse expression. Poetry enthusiasts in general, and Ursula K. Le Guin's legions of fans in particular, will want to avail themselves of a copy of "Incredible Good Fortune". 'Waking in April': Drifting on the birdsong river/between no light and light/and the sleep of a man and a cat,/I wear the soft old shirt/my mother made me seventy years ago,/winter coat, wedding gown./I wonder, as it wears away to rags/and gauze, will there be a mirror/to see the naked soul in,/or only an unraveling of shadow/as the day widens/and things grow clearer.
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