{"product_id":"ursula-k-le-guin-collected-poems-loa-368-isbn-9781598537369","title":"Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (LOA #368)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAt last, a major American poet collected for the first time in the sixth volume of the definitive Library of Edition of her works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTARRED REVIEW IN \u003cu\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin’s career began and ended with poetry. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of her works gathers, for the first time, her collected poems—from her earliest collection \u003cb\u003eWild Angels\u003c\/b\u003e (1974) through her final publication, the collection \u003cb\u003eSo Far So Good\u003c\/b\u003e, which she delivered to her editor just a week before her death in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe themes explored in the poems gathered here resonate through all Le Guin’s oeuvre, but find their strongest voice in her poetry: exploration as a metaphor for both human bravery and creativity, the mystery and fragility of nature and the impact of humankind on their environment, the Tao Te Ching, marriage, womanhood, and even cats. Le Guin’s poetry is often traditional in form but never in style: her verse is earthy, surprising, and lyrical. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding some 40 poems never before collected, this volume restores to print much of Le Guin's remarkable verse. It features a new introduction  by editor Harold Bloom, written before his death in 2019, in which he reflects on the power of Le Guin’s poems, which he calls “American originals.” It also features helpful explanatory notes and a chronology of Le Guin’s life.\"This imaginative and insightful collection is a worthy tribute to the poetic life’s work of an important American writer.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin\u003c\/b\u003e (1929–2018) was one of most acclaimed writers of the last half century, the author of numerous novels and stories across multiple genres as well as a dozen books of poetry. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (1930–2019) was the leading literary critic of his generation, the author of more than forty books including \u003ci\u003eThe Anxiety of Influence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Invention of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRead at the Award Dinner, May 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beware when you honor an artist.\u003cbr\u003e You are praising danger.\u003cbr\u003e You are holding out your hand\u003cbr\u003e to the dead and the unborn.\u003cbr\u003e You are counting on what cannot be counted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poet’s measures serve anarchic joy.\u003cbr\u003e The story-teller tells one story: freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Above all beware of honoring women artists.\u003cbr\u003e For the housewife will fill the house with lions\u003cbr\u003e and in with the grandmother\u003cbr\u003e come bears, wild horses, great horned owls, coyotes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (The Award dinner was when Le Guin was presented with a Retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness.\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnonyma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When the great lordly singers hush,\u003cbr\u003e my casual and selfless voice\u003cbr\u003e that takes no profit, makes no choice,\u003cbr\u003e pipes up, indifferent as a thrush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When brazen monuments corrode\u003cbr\u003e and praise is dust in dust with blame\u003cbr\u003e and dateless night hides every name,\u003cbr\u003e I still go lilting down the road.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s sad that hopes and poets die,\u003cbr\u003e but my dear task and fondest care\u003cbr\u003e is to bear softly what’s to bear\u003cbr\u003e and ever to sing the lullabye.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299820064997,"sku":"NP9781598537369","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598537369.jpg?v=1767743336","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ursula-k-le-guin-collected-poems-loa-368-isbn-9781598537369","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}