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Collected poems / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Harold Bloom, editor.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E42 A6 2023b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 368.
- The library of America ; 368
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. 2023
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- lii, 824 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Le Guin: collected poems
- Ursula K. Le Guin: collected poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Library of America, [2023]
- Summary:
- "'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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 756-803) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781598537369
- 1598537369
- OCLC:
- 1335755753
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