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Subject(s)

• American poetry [Browse]

Editor

• Bloom, Harold [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

• Library of America ; 368. [More in this series]
• The library of America ; 368

Summary note

"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor a week before her death. The major themes of Le Guin's work find their most refined expression here: exploration as a metaphor for both human bravery and creativity, the mystery and fragility of nature, the Tao Te Ching, marriage, aging, and womanhood. Features include a new introduction by Harold Bloom written in 2019, sixty-eight uncollected poems, a selection of Le Guin's prose writing about poetry, and helpful notes." -- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 756-803) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / by Harold Bloom
• Wild angels
• Wild oats and fireweed. Part One: Places ; Part Two: Woman ; Part Three: Words ; Part Four: Women
• No boats
• Going out with peacocks. One: Fire, water, earth, breath ; Two: Fury and sorrow ; Three: Kin and kind ; Four: Dancing on the sun
• The uses of music in uttermost parts
• Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching : a book about the Way and the power of the Way
• Sixty odd: Part One: Circling to descend ; Part Two: The mirror gallery
• Incredible good fortune. A book of songs ; Season and place ; Notes from a cruise ; Histories ; Silence and speech
• From Out here : poems and images from Steens Mountain country
• From Finding my elegy : life sciences. I. Socioesthetics ; II. Botany and zoology ; III. Meteorology and geography ; IV. Developmental ontology ; V. Philosophy and theology
• Late in the day. Relations ; Contemplations ; Messengers ; Four lines ; Works ; Times ; The old music ; Envoi
• So far so good. Observations ; Incantations ; Meditations ; Elegies ; The night journey ; So far ; In the ninth decade
• Selected uncollected poems
• Selected prose about poetry
• Chronology
• Note on the texts
• Notes
• Index of titles and first lines.

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ISBN

• 9781598537369 ((hardcover))
• 1598537369 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2022943086

OCLC

1335755753

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