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Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems: 1960-2010by Ursula K. Le Guin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:One of the world's most honored authors of imaginative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin is also the author of six acclaimed volumes of poetry. Finding My Elegy distills her life's work, offering a selection of some of her best early poems, and introduces a gorgeous, moving group of new poems written over the last four years. 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 and memory are a reckoning with a whole life.
The Arts of Old Age written in the airport I learn the arts of old age day by day, the expertise of being lame; the sense of unimpatient impotence; the irony of all accomplishments; the silent, furtive welcome of delay. Review:"There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." Grace Paley
Review:"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." Margaret Atwood
Review:"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." Boston Globe
Synopsis:From a celebrated writer, a new and selected volume of poetry that spans fifty years of work. It includes some of the best of her earlier verse along with a rich series of new poems that she has been writing for the last four years.
Synopsis: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. About the AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Among her honors are a National Book Award, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Table of ContentsWild Fortune: Selected Poems, 1960-2005
From Wild Angels (1960-1975) 15 Offering 15 A Lament for Rheged 16 There 19 Ars Lunga 21 Song 22 Tao Song 23 From Hard Words (1975-1980) 24 Invocation 24 The Mind Is Still 25 The Marrow 26 The Writer to the Dancer 27 From The Dancing at Tillai 28 Middle 28 At Three Rivers, April 80 29 Slick Rock Creek, September 30 Winter Downs 31 Peak 32 The Child on the Shore 34 Tui 35 From Wild Oats and Fireweed (1980-1987) 36 Wild Oats and Fireweed 36 From In the Red Zone: Mount St. Helens, October 1981 39 To Walk In Here 39 While the Old Men Make Ready to Kill 41 For the New House 43 The Maenads 44 Inventory 45 A Meditation on a Marriage 47 From Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987) 49 The Crown of Laurel 49 From Going Out with Peacocks (1988-1994) 53 The Pacific Slope 53 Riding the “Coast Starlight” 54 Sleeping with Cats 55 Waking: Two Poems 56 The Vigil for Ben Linder 57 The Queen of Spain, Grown Old and Mad, Writes to the Daughter She Imagines She Had by Christopher Columbus 60 Song for a Daughter 62 The Hard Dancing 64 From No Boats (chapbook, 1991) 65 From “McKenzie Voices” 65 At Cannon Beach 66 From Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (1993) 67 The Aching Air 67 From Sixty Odd (1994-1999) 70 Read at the Award Dinner, May 1996 70 Hexagram 45 71 When there arent any 72 Rodmell 74 For Gabriela Mistral 75 Hexagram 49 77 Infinitive 78 “The scarcity of rhinos” on the television 79 Field Burning Debated, Salmon Fate Discussed 81 Morning Service 82 Late Dusk 83 A Blue Moon: June 30 84 Repulse Monkey 85 “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” 86 From Incredible Good Fortune (2000-2006) 87 Incredible Good Fortune 87 April in San Jose 88 Mount Rainier from Amtrak 90 The Cactus Wren 91 From A Book of Songs 92 The Old Lady 92 The Forsaken Shepherdess 93 From Notes from a Cruise 94 Antigua: The Silence of the Mountain 94 Pelicans 95 Talk Shows 96 Here, There, at the Marsh 97 American Wars 98 The Lost Explorer 99 Ille 100 Invocation 101 Dance Song 102 English 103 Taking Courage 104 A Request 105 For Naomi 106 Learning Latin in Old Age 107 Futurology 108 Life Sciences: New Poems, 2006-2011 I. Socioesthetics 111 Distance 111 Pretty Things 112 In England in the Fifties 113 The City of the Plain 114 Watching the Fractal Set 115 The Mistake 116 The Next War 117 The Crest 118 Soldiers 119 The Curse of the Prophetess 122 Every Land 124 The Elders at the Falls 125 An Old Yurok Basket 127 Almost and Always 128 Lieder Singer 129 Writers 130 After the Fire 131 Lorcas Duende 132 Meters 133 Exegi monumentum aere perennius 135 She Remembers the Famous Poets 136 II. Botany and Zoology 137 Two Crow Poems 137 Learning the Name 138 The Greater Forest 139 Red Alders in March 140 Pinus Sabiniana 141 Creation of the Horse 143 The Clydesdale Mare 144 I think of them 145 Grace 146 Raksha 147 At the Clackamas County Fair 150 Extinction 151 III. Meteorology and Geography 152 Mendenhall Glacier 152 A Measure of Desolation 153 Coast Range Highway, November 154 Seasonal Quatrains 156 Morning in Joseph, Oregon 157 Hour of the Changes 158 Summer Morning on the Volcano 159 For My Traveling Companion 160 Up the Columbia 161 Navna: The River-running, by Intrumo of Sinshan 162 At Kishamish 163 IV. Developmental Ontology 168 At the Center 168 Early Memory: Jocken 169 The Merchant of Words 170 Stammersong 172 GPS 173 The House Is Soft 174 Seven Lines to Elisabeth 175 Final Destination 176 Ghazal at the Oasis of Mara 177 Travel 178 Pillowtalk 179 Low Barometer 180 My Birthday Present 181 The Arts of Old Age 182 Sometimes it seems 183 The Body of the World 184 When They Came 185 Hindsight 186 Body of Water 187 Aubade 188 Votum 189 V. Philosophy and Theology 190 Finding My Elegy 190 The Whirlwind 193 Intimations 194 Some Mornings 195 In the Borderlands 196 Jewel and Gravel 197 Science 199 Tout rêve . . . 200 Morning Star 201 Uncaged 202 A God I Know 203 January Night Prayer 204 The Conference 205 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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