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Finding My Elegy

New and Selected Poems

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"[Le Guin] never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." — Margaret Atwood

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.

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    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2012

      In this collection of new and selected poems, National Book Award winner Le Guin (Lavinia), best known for her sf and fantasy novels, writes about life's sharp edges as if she were conversing calmly with a friend. Places and people exchange stories of identity and fear in poems that meld the abstract and the concrete, as Le Guin writes passionately about a range of themes from environmental and existential to sociopolitical and autobiographical. Using clear, precise language that frequently employs folk and mythical symbols, Le Guin uses comical and surreal images: "crows are the color of anarchy/ and close up they are a little bit scary/ an eye as bright as anything/ Having a pet crow will be/ like having Voltaire on a string." Often, the poems celebrate nature's fertile beauty as if it furnished spiritual redemption, yet while they provoke a kind of Zen tranquility one can still hear the defiant tone of the romantic poets. VERDICT Le Guin turns her rich experiences into luminous poems that incite meaning and beauty. Recommended for all readers.--Sadiq Alkoriji, South Regional Lib., Broward Cty., FL

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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