80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin

by Fowler, Karen Joy; Notkin, Debbie

• ISBN13: 9781933500430
• ISBN10: 1933500433
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-21
• Publisher: Pathway Book Service

Summary

What can you give a writer who has everything?

Table of Contents

Photograph	p. 2
Rooms Must Explain Themselves	p. 9
Destinations and Journeys	p. 11
"The Author" and the author and the aspirant	p. 13
Untided	p. 18
Dancing the World: Language and Cosmology in Le Guin	p. 24
The Nobies' Story	p. 30
The Word for World is Forest	p. 39
Ursula K. Le Guin: Mutinous Navigator	p. 43
Ursula's Eightieth: A Sonnet Upon It	p. 47
Thank You, Ursula	p. 48
Four Contributions from Beyon'Dusa	p. 57
Introduction	p. 58
Will Do Magic for Small Change	p. 59
Touch	p. 69
Introduction	p. 85
Seamonsters	p. 87
The Heart of the Song	p. 104
Afterword	p. 116
Untitled	p. 117
Marginalia from The Left Hand of Darkness	p. 118
A Few Things I Know about Ursula	p. 123
My Life with Le Guin	p. 127
Tenar and Two Birthdays	p. 131
On "On the High Marsh"	p. 135
Tribute to Le Guin/Earthsea	p. 138
Untitled	p. 141
Distant Effects	p. 143
A New Island of Stability; Annals of the Western Shore	p. 147
The Exercise of Vital Powers	p. 151
Untitled	p. 157
Ulysses Kingfisher	p. 180
Seven Ways of Looking at Ursula K. Le Guin	p. 181
Ursula Le Guin's Narratives of Healing	p. 191
Why I Love "Direction of the Road"	p. 207
"From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" and back again. or, I think we're in Poughkeepsie now, Toto	p. 209
The Closet	p. 215
Old Friend	p. 220
Solitude and Souls	p. 221
For Ursula	p. 227
The Soft Key	p. 230
Ursula K. Le Guin: short bibliography	p. 234
Acknowledgments	p. 239
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