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So Far So Good
β Scribed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in So Far So Good, an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her death in January, 2018. Fans will recognize some of the motifs hereβcats, wind, strong women β as well as her exploration of the intersection between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown. The writing is clear, artful and reverent as Le Guin looks back at key memories and concerns and looks forward to what is next: 'Spirit, rehearse the journey of the body/ that are to come, the motions/ of the matter that held you.'"βWashington Post
"Le Guin's farewell poetry collection, contains all that created her reputation for fictionβsharp insight, restless imagination, humor that is both mordant and humane, and, above all else, that connection to all creation, that 'immense what is'."βNew York Journal of Books
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