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©2023
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lii, 824 pages ; 21 cm
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Library of America #368
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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
"'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