Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems
About this ebook
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.
- Life's Work in Poetry: Spanning over half a century, this collection gathers the definitive poetic works from a legendary voice in American letters.
- Poems About Nature: From the wild coasts of the Pacific Northwest to the quiet valleys of California, Le Guin's reverence for the natural world shines in every line.
- Reflective and Transcendent: A profound reckoning with a whole life, exploring motherhood, creativity, and war with earthy humor and vivid beauty.
- For Readers of Le Guin: Fans of her celebrated imaginative fiction will discover the powerful, poetic heart that informed all of her storytelling.
About the author
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters. Her body of work includes twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award, along with a PEN/Malamud Award and many other accolades. In 2016 she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
