URSULA LE GUIN

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Ursula Le Guin: Walking In Cornwall

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A book of poems written during a visit to Cornwall in England by the acclaimed American writer Ursula Le Guin. This new edition is illustrated in colour by contemporary Cornish painters.

Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. She studied at Radcliffe College and Columbia University. Since 1958, Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Charles Le Guin, whom she married in Paris in 1953. She has three children, and three grandchildren.
Ursula Le Guin has written novels, poetry, children’s books, essays and translations. Le Guin’s most well-known works are her Earthsea fantasies, and her science ?ction novels, such as The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home. She also has eleven collections of short stories, six poetry books, and eleven books for children (including the Catwings books). Le Guin’s books have received the National Book Award, ?ve Hugo Awards, ?ve Nebula Awards and the Kafka Award, among many others, and have been ?nalists for the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award.
 
 
 

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PBK   ISBN 1861711042  £7.99 / $13.99

PBK   (Revised edition) ISBN 9781861713681    £5.99 / $8.99

HBK   (Revised edition) ISBN 9781861713919    £19.99 / $29.99
 
 

 
EXTRACT FROM WALKING IN CORNWALL
 

The track’s a dry streambed. Little signs
point softly, rain and weather-faded,
whisper: Men-an-Tol.

 The ring is in the valley
 the door is in the valley
 the valley is the mother

 Round door
 open mouth
 hollow thing

 Time passes through time’s circle

 The mother wears this ring

What is the marrow of this bone?

 Down in the hollow valley
 come be born
 of stone

O it is the quietest place,
the shallow valley, Men-an-Tol.

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by Jeremy Mark Robinson

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books consist of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales From Earthsea and The Other Wind. There are short stories too, which explore aspects of the Earthsea cosmos.
This’s some of the finest writing in contemporary fantasy fiction. A rock-solid prose style, clear, earthy, sensual, simple, very poetic, and such a pleasure to read. In the Earthsea  books, Le Guin is absolutely in control, at the top of her game. She is a master storyteller. There isn’t any fantasy writing better than this. One gets the impression that the narrator of her books is a strong personality, an independent thinker, very tough and worldly wise, honest and humble, and also compassionate. The story, in the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea, of how young Ged becomes a wizard on the wizard island of Roke, is as good any you’ll find of an apprenticeship in magic and shamanism. Le Guin’s prose is totally confident as she depicts how the peasant boy from the sticks and the wrong side of the tracks becomes one of the most powerful wizards in the Roke School (and ultimately the greatest mage of them all).
 

Jeremy Robinson's books include Glorification: Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Art (1990), Rimbaud (1992), Lawrence Durrell (1995) and Detonation Britain: Nuclear War in the UK (1997). He edits two magazines, Passion and Pagan America (a journal of American poetry).
 
 

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