So Far So Good
Final Poems: 2014-2018
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Silver Press
Published:25th Sep '25
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poetic journey into mortality, myth, and the mysteries beyond.
The final book of poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in the UK for the first time.
Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her ground-breaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet, and wrote across genres for her entire career. In this clarifying and sublime collection – completed shortly before her death in 2018 – Le Guin is unflinching in the face of mortality, and full of wonder for the mysteries beyond. Redolent of the lush natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, with rich sounds playfully echoing myth and nursery rhyme, Le Guin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career.
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 here – cats, wind, strong women – 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.’ Washington Post
Le Guin's farewell poetry collection contains all that created her reputation for fiction – sharp insight, restless imagination, humour that is both mordant and humane, and, above all else, that connection to all creation, that ‘immense what is’. New York Journal of Books
It;s hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin. Salon
She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is. Margaret Atwood
There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin’s. Grace Paley
ISBN: 9781068591822
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: 190g
92 pages