Incredible Good Fortune

by LE GUIN, URSULA K.

• ISBN13: 9781590303146
• ISBN10: 1590303148
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-14
• Publisher: Shambhala
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Summary

These warm, funny, and eloquent poems, spanning the years 2000 to 2005, by the celebrated author of "Always Coming Home and "The Language of the Night, showcase Le Guin's many facets as a writer. ""

Author Biography

Ursula K. Le Guin is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Gandalf, Kafka, and National Book Awards. She is the author of many short stories and more than fifteen novels, including The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and the Earthsea Cycle. She is also an honored author of children's books, poetry, and criticism.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader	p. ix
A Book of Songs	p. 1
The Old Lady	p. 3
The Housewife	p. 4
The Girl at the Gate of Fairyland	p. 5
The Shiksa	p. 6
The Drowned Girl	p. 7
The Forsaken Shepherdess	p. 8
The Mute	p. 9
The Lorelei to Heinrich Heine	p. 10
The Woman in the Attic	p. 11
Anonyma	p. 12
The Little Girl	p. 13
The Woman in the Basement	p. 14
Season and Place	p. 15
Incredible Good Fortune	p. 17
San Jose Palms	p. 18
November Birds	p. 19
Winter Days	p. 21
Quatrains	p. 22
An Afternoon in England in Winter	p. 25
Waking in April	p. 26
The Non-Cartesian in June	p. 27
Nine Lines, August 9	p. 28
Mount Rainier from Amtrak	p. 29
Another Weather: Mount St Helens	p. 30
In Harney County	p. 31
The Cactus Wren	p. 38
Notes from a Cruise	p. 39
Les Iles Sous le Vent	p. 41
Aruba	p. 42
The Coup de Grace	p. 43
Deck One Infirmary Blues	p. 44
Sorceries of San Blas	p. 45
Antigua: The Silence of the Mountain	p. 47
24 Knots at Night	p. 48
Pelicans	p. 49
Passengers	p. 50
Nobody	p. 51
Baja	p. 52
The News	p. 53
124[degree]30' West	p. 54
Mementoes	p. 55
Histories	p. 57
Buz	p. 59
Love Songs in Late May	p. 60
Passing the Clinic	p. 64
At the Feast in the Great Hall	p. 65
The Finding	p. 66
The Lost Explorer	p. 67
Magellanica	p. 68
Peace Vigil, March, 2003	p. 69
Talk Shows	p. 70
For Karen	p. 71
Here, There, at the Marsh	p. 72
American Wars	p. 73
3/3/03	p. 74
An American Etymology	p. 75
April in San Jose	p. 76
Silence and Speech	p. 77
Invocation	p. 79
English	p. 80
Dance Song	p. 81
Two Poems for Judith	p. 82
A Lament for My Poultry	p. 85
Seventy	p. 86
Taking Courage	p. 87
A Request	p. 88
Ille	p. 89
For Naomi	p. 90
Learning Latin in Old Age	p. 91
Futurology	p. 92
Index of First Lines	p. 93
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