Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author. Uniform Title: Poems. Selections Title: So far so good [sound recording] : final poems: 2014-2018 / Ursula K. Le Guin. Published: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2019 (Books to Life, recording studio) Description: 1 online resource (audio (1 hour, 5 minutes)) Book Number: DB 94575 Dewey No.: 811.54 ANF 23 Notes: Observations. Little grandmother ; Words for the dead ; McCoy creek: cattle ; Merlin ; All saints all souls ; McCoy creek: wind ; Six quatrains -- Incantations. Come to dust ; On second hill ; Lullaby ; To the rain ; Travelers -- Meditations. There was a jar in Oregon ; The fine arts ; An autumn reading ; "There is always something watching you" ; Outsight ; Lesser senses ; A cento of scientists ; How it seems to me -- Elegies. It used to be ; Berkeley, December 1941 ; Theodora ; Felled ; Rift ; For Heggaia ; Bats ; After the death of Orpheus ; July ; Looking back -- The night journey. Wakeful: Islanded, Night voices, Noctis oceanus ; Falling: Company, Doze, Farther, Sleep ; Dreaming: Tracks, The people ; Waking: Seaward -- So far. Planning ; The boat ; The food ; The unknown continent ; The absolution ; Calm sea ; The course kept ; Timor ; Intimations ; The boat itself ; Night ; Westering -- In the ninth decade. Three quatrains ; Theory of aging ; The old novelist's lament ; All abroad ; Leaves ; The last visit ; Where the ways grew narrow ; The desert crossing ; Walking the maze ; Desire and fear ; The combat ; "Soul clap hands and louder sing" said Yeats ; Ancestry ; On the western shore. Availability restricted to persons meeting the eligibility requirements of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Narrated by: Jill Ferris. Digital talking book. 3 levels and 84 navigation points. Digitally mastered. A collection of poetry from the award-winning author's final years. In these poems, she reflects on her life and the mysteries that lie beyond while facing mortality. 2018. Female narrator. NLS/BPH Recorded from: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2018] 9781556595387. System requirements: NLS authorized digital talking book (dtb) player. Web version requires Internet access, BARD password and NLS authorized digital talking book player. Contact your cooperating library or the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, for more information. Full audio with structure. 2018 Ursula K. Le Guin Estate "Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet. "I still kind of twitch and growl when I'm reduced to being the science fiction writer. I'm a novelist and increasingly a poet. And sometimes I wish they'd call me that," Le Guin said in a 2015 interview with NPR. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death in 2018--Le Guin immerses herself in the natural world, ruminating on the mysteries of dying, and considering the simple, redemptive lessons of the earth"-- Provided by publisher. 3 84 DM dbcurrent Subjects: Death -- Poetry. Nature -- Poetry. Downloadable books. Nonfiction. Poetry. lcgft Talking books. lcgft Other authors: Ferris, Jill, narrator. Location: DLC-B DB 94575 NLS/BPH Control No.: 1015169 Access: Downloadable talking book. Location: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.94575